Standing on the banks of the Sandy River, Oregon, at 11:45 on Thursday morning, parents, grandparents and kids jostled for a good spot and ready their nets. Below, in the clear water, thousands of ...

Alyssa and Joy head to the cutting board at Downeast Salmon Federation's Smelt Shack ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 13—The Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) approved a one-day recreational smelt fishery in the Cowlitz ...

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office seized approximately 2,500 pounds of illegally harvested smelt last Thursday during a joint poaching enforcement operation with Oregon State Police on the Sandy ...

A longfin smelt in the San Francisco Bay area is measured during population surveys. (Jacob Staff/USFWS via Courthouse News) (CN) — Federal officials this week will start the process of designating ...

A young fisherman gets a hands-on experience with a slippery smelt March 5 on the Cowlitz River. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files) The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife announced ...

Authorities seized 2,500 pounds of illegally caught smelt during a joint poaching operation on the Sandy River, the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office announced. The operation, conducted in ...

Longfin smelt at the University of California, Davis Fangue Lab in an undated photo. (Brianna Yetter/University of California Davis via Bay City News) The longfin smelt, a fish the length of a ...

Alyssa and Joy jhelp to process smelt for the upcoming Smelt Fry in the smoke shack of the Downeast Salmon Federation on the ...