Can the Northwest's huge runs of eulachon smelt be preserved? Oregonians over 40 remember the fun of dipping nets into rivers alive with huge runs of eulachon smelt. Today, the tiny, mild-flavored ...

Eulachon smelt return to the Columbia River each year but only periodically to the Sandy River. This is the first time since 2015 any numbers have been recorded in the lower Sandy.

Smelt dippers in Washington tributaries were allowed 20 pounds per person each day up through 2004. In Oregon tributaries, the eulachon recreational fisheries remained opened year-round, 7 days a ...

Into the mid 1900s, Pacific smelt arrived in such abundance this time of year in Washington's Cowlitz River that tribal fishermen could rake them out of the water. This year, the smelt, or ...

Surprise fishing in Oregon: Short notice of seven-hour season has smelt dippers scrambling Rare eulachon harvest allowed for one afternoon on Sandy River ...

The federal Endangered Species Act listing determination for smelt identified “changes in ocean conditions due to climate change as the most significant threat to eulachon (smelt) and their ...

Also called eulachon, smelt were reported Monday in the main Columbia River as far upstream as Frenchman’s Bar west of Vancouver.

For those who missed the news earlier this week, put away your smelt nets and buckets. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has announced it has closed fishing for eulachon smelt statewide.

There’s been substantial competition for the Eulachon smelt, especially from sea lions that have been in the Cowlitz River since the smelt run began in February.

It is well-documented that the eulachon smelt fishery collapsed almost totally in the 1990s, and the inter-agency management plans imposed shortly thereafter were written with conservative ...

Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a new fish species called Ferruaspis brocksi, which lived 15 million years ago, and some of the fish have their final meals preserved inside their ...