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 ...

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 ...

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 small village of shanties is spread out before us as we make our way across the ice. Despite a snowfall that is increasing in intensity and the fact that it is a weekday, there are a surprising ...

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office confiscated approximately 2,500 pounds of illegally harvested smelt last week, after a poaching prevention operation conducted with Oregon State Police. This ...

THE WORK THAT CREWS HAVE JUST STARTED IN THE DELTA. WORDS CAN’T DESCRIBE THE SERENITY OF PROSPECT ISLAND ON THE DELTA. SO WHEN YOU LOOK BEHIND YOU AND YOU SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE, WHAT DO YOU SEE? I ...

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 ...

Gov. Jay Inslee will soon a bill into law that will require Washington smelt dippers to get a license before they wade out with their nets. Recreational fishing licenses have been required to harvest ...

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 ...

The longfin smelt, a finger-sized fish that once filled San Francisco Bay, has suffered such a drastic decline that the federal government has determined the fish are at risk of extinction. The U.S.