Authorities seized 2,500 pounds of illegally caught smelt during a one-day poaching sting on the Sandy River. The fish were ...

Authorities seized 2,500 pounds of illegally caught smelt during a joint poaching operation on the Sandy River, the Multnomah ...

of food. In Green Bay, off northern Michigan ... A terrific breeder (the female casts more than 20,000 eggs), the smelt fed on insect larvae, other fish and sometimes its own young.

Efforts to save the tiny fish have long faced challenges, from the invasive mollusks that outcompeted the smelt for food in the San Francisco Bay estuary to the pumps that direct the region’s ...

Longfin smelt were once one of the most abundant open-water fishes in the San Francisco Bay Estuary — commercially important fish, key to the Bay food web. Today the species' numbers have plummeted to ...