Agricultural industry leaders in the San Joaquin Valley often blame insufficient supplies on environmental regulations that prioritize habitat protections ... like the delta smelt, salmon ...

PORTLAND (WGME) -- The weather has a lot to do with smelt fishing season, and depending on the year, it's not always a guarantee. “Twenty years ago, you could count on being on until the end of ...

The Delta smelt is a small, three-inch-long fish native to California's San Francisco Estuary. Listed as endangered under state and federal laws, its habitat is dictated by water flows through the ...

BOWDOINHAM, Maine — Jim McPherson’s smelt fishing shacks are back on the ice at Jim’s Camps in Bowdoinham after two unusually warm winters. For McPherson and his longtime employee, Derek Saxon, this ...

It's an attempt to change the environmental protections of the smelt, a three-inch-long fish once vital to California's ecosystem but now nearly extinct, and criticize the state's efforts while ...

It's an attempt to change the environmental protections of the smelt, a three-inch-long fish once vital to California's ecosystem but now nearly extinct, and criticize the state's efforts while ...

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 ...

If you’ve followed Donald Trump’s attacks on California water policy in the mainstream media, you’ve been told how preposterous it is that he’s criticized the delta smelt. A column in the ...