Because of that delta smelt, you don’t have any water. You don’t have farms. You don’t have anything.” Then, the valve became a giant faucet — in Canada — that would direct water all ...

Authorities seized 2,500 pounds of smelt, which equates to more than 12,000 individual fish. Photo courtesy Multnomah County Sheriff's Office A special 7-hour fishing season in Oregon brought chaos ...

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.

Below, in the clear water, thousands of smelt streamed by, each one about 6 inches long. They spend their adult lives in the ocean, then return to their native stream to spawn and die. Little did ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — 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.

Whether the Columbia River’s eulachon smelt run will make its way into the Sandy River is always a crap shoot, but this year’s run appears to have waited for spring break. A pulse of the tasty ...