and eulachon smelt are occasionally available for recreational harvest. These fish, known for their elongated bodies and silvery sides, spend most of their lives in the ocean before migrating up ...

Longfin smelt live for several years, spawning in freshwater and inhabiting estuaries and nearshore waters, and even ranging out into the ocean. Usually growing from 3.5 to 4.3 inches as adults, these ...

These small, silvery fish spend most of their lives in the ocean, migrating upstream to spawn and typically dying shortly after. Anglers were reminded that it is illegal to collect dead smelt ...

Congressman Doug LaMalfa announced the House passage of his Congressional Review Act resolution to repeal the Biden administration’s listing of the longfin smelt as endangered under the Federal ...

Probably the most controversial fish in this region, if not in California as a whole, is the Delta Smelt. The Delta smelt is the poster child of all that is wrong in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.