Smelt’s annual return from the ocean has long drawn thousands of dip-netters up and down the Cowlitz River. This year, however, the prized tradition will be different. The Washington Department ...

Ah, smelt. Despite the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (WDFW) best intentions to provide us with smelt dipping ...

Or is it? That’s one of the big changes for the 2025 Cowlitz River smelt fishery. This year, and presumably moving forward, anyone participating in the smelt fishery will have to have a current ...

It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta ...

For a small fish only found in the San Francisco Estuary, the delta smelt has caused a lot of controversy over the years.

For a small fish found only in the San Francisco Estuary, the Delta smelt has caused much controversy over the years, ranging from lawsuits to executive orders. In 1993, the smelt was listed as ...

It's an attempt to change the environmental protections of the smelt, a three-inch-long fish ... gets its water primarily from the Los Angeles River, Owens Valley and the Colorado River.

But Real Madrid smelt blood, they just know when to do it, they've got this rhythm. "Manchester City look like a group of players, a team and a club trying to remember what they were." Former City ...

In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down appeals by California water agencies and farmers to overturn Sacramento-San Joaquin River pumping limits that protect the delta smelt — a win for ...

President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to clarify comments he made last summer that led many in the Pacific Northwest to fear he would attempt to divert Columbia River water to Southern California.

What does a 3-inch-long, nearly extinct fish native to California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta have to do ... yet again at the endangered delta smelt as he threatens to withhold federal ...