The annual parade celebrates the small silver fish that run in the region's streams in the spring. $2 for 6 months SUBSCRIBE NOW. ... Photos: Magic Smelt Parade shines through Canal Park ...

The fish were confiscated during the single-day legal smelt dipping season on March 27, 2025 — a rare opportunity that drew large crowds to the riverbank between the Sandy River’s mouth and ...

LONGVIEW — This year’s Cowlitz River smelt dipping season went out a lot like it started: without much happening.. The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that no one ...

Move over, GAVIN NEWSOM. President DONALD TRUMP has another California nemesis — and it’s a three-inch-long endangered fish. The president, who is en route to Los Angeles Friday afternoon to ...

Donald Trump (left), a delta smelt fish (center) and Gavin Newsom (right). Trump alleged that protections for the endangered fish species in California are, in part, blamed for the mayhem ...

"Anyone who was harvesting smelt was required to have a fishing license and were not to exceed 10 pounds of fish," the Sheriff's Office posted on X. "Overharvesting has serious consequences.

This handout photo provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) shows a delta smelt fish on November 8, 2010 in California The LA wildfires have dealt a multi-billion-dollar hit to the ...

There are certain things former President Donald Trump vehemently dislikes: Taylor Swift. Low-flow toilets. And a 3-inch-long endangered fish that lives in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta ...

Oregonians over 40 remember the fun of dipping nets into rivers alive with huge runs of eulachon smelt. Today, the tiny, mild-flavored fish is officially listed as "Threatened" and their harvest ...

Authorities seized 2,500 pounds of illegally caught smelt during a one-day poaching sting on the Sandy River. The fish were confiscated during Oregon’s rare smelt dipping season and donated to ...