The Oregon Food Bank is facing uncertainty after learning the Department of Agriculture has halted $500 million in deliveries ...

On Thursday, hundreds of families and fishermen took to the banks of the Sandy River for the one-day harvest of eulachon smelt.

Whether the Columbia River’s eulachon smelt run will make its way into the Sandy River is always a crap shoot, but this ...

Thousands of northwesterners were disappointed when they failed to meet up with some hooligans in March. These hooligans ...

Scientists have discovered the fossilized remains of a new fish species called Ferruaspis brocksi, which lived 15 million ...

This year’s Cowlitz River recreational smelt dip-fishing season kicked off Wednesday almost totally without its two most important elements: smelt and people dipping for them.

On Thursday, WDFW approved dipping on Wednesday and March 22 — the last day of the season. Saturday's dipnetting is also ...

Mar. 12—Anglers from across the Pacific Northwest took to the banks of the Cowlitz River on Wednesday, March 12, for the opening of the state's brief smelt dipping season. All it took was a few ...

The incredible Great Lakes smelt situation was so described last week by Dr. John Van Oosten of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The vast smelt population of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron (where ...

What Rahman, an assistant project scientist, knows is the value of the work that his facility does researching and breeding smelt such as the endangered Delta smelt. While the population of this fish ...

There’ve been many recent winters when the ice isn’t thick enough for David MacDougall to set up his smelt shack on the Squamscott River in downtown Exeter. This year is different.