Man caught fishing for salmon in closed WA river ordered to jail

Man caught fishing for salmon in closed WA river ordered to jail

The Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife received reports from a landowner along the Dungeness River of possible evidence of poaching and trespassing on the river in the Olympic...

Jail Sentence Handed Down in Dungeness River Salmon Poaching Case

PORT ANGELES — A Clallam County man will serve jail time after pleading guilty to illegally fishing for endangered salmon in a closed section of the Dungeness River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. Gregory Gallauher was sentenced in January to 90 days in jail, with 75 days suspended, leaving 15 days to serve. He pleaded guilty to second-degree unlawful recreational fishing. A related trespassing charge was not pursued. The case began in Septem…