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Gov. Jay Inslee will soon a bill into law that will require Washington smelt dippers to get a license before they wade out with their nets. Recreational fishing licenses have been required to harvest ...

The longfin smelt, a finger-sized fish that once filled San Francisco Bay, has suffered such a drastic decline that the federal government has determined the fish are at risk of extinction. The U.S.

The fragile little fish that swim around in dark tanks in a lab are the last hope for their kind. The lab director who oversees their care, Tien-Chieh Hung, explained that when the Delta smelt ...

A small village of shanties is spread out before us as we make our way across the ice. Despite a snowfall that is increasing in intensity and the fact that it is a weekday, there are a surprising ...

The warm winter weather in Maine is affecting more than just the ski slopes – after having a great season last year, some smelt camps across the state have closed-up shop early for the season, while ...

A special 7-hour fishing season in Oregon brought chaos and a bit of lawlessness to the Sandy River on Thursday. As big pushes of tiny smelt worked their way upstream and into anglers’ dip nets, ...