After five years of scooping up samples from the beach at Deception Pass State Park’s Bowman Bay and finding only sand and pebbles, a group of volunteers made an exciting discovery. Surf smelt eggs ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - Dalton Fry cast a finely meshed net into the murky Cowlitz River. He waited a few minutes, then hauled it in and poured the contents into a glass jar. There swam dozens of smelt ...

WEYMOUTH — Mayor Robert Hedlund counted at least 50 small brownish dots on a rock handed up to him from the brook below. The dots are smelt eggs and they signaled that a just-completed project to ...

FIDALGO BAY — Holding up a jar filled with water and sand, students looked at roughly 400 tiny, white eggs floating inside — surf smelt at the very early stages of their lives. The small fish, a kind ...