Surf smelt Hypomesus pretiosus are an important part of the Salish Sea food web and obligate beach spawners, yet little is known about the spatiotemporal distribution of spawning and beach ...

As eiders — the largest duck found in these parts — fly in long linear flocks not far out from our beaches and gannets dive like rockets into Cape Cod Bay, chilling temperatures have driven striped ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Spring trolling and river drifting for salmon and trout work well at times, ...

As February approaches, local sportsmen and women start to think about smelt dipping. Will the popular smelt dip take place on the Cowlitz River this year, or is the run supposed to be too depressed ...

The following is for an avid reader of this column who loves to fish for smelt and asked me recently why I never write about them. This is for him. According to the Maine Fish and Wildlife Department, ...

The reasons for the dwindling population of smelt prey fish in the Great Lakes to near historic lows are more complicated than previously believed, new research suggests. Although results of the 2014 ...

When Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials announced last month that they had found high levels of PFAS chemicals in Lake Superior smelt — high enough to warn people to limit how much ...

Mar. 8—Smelt dippers will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved recreational fisheries for Wednesday, March 12, and Saturday, ...