"Overharvesting has serious consequences." Authorities seize 2,500 pounds of fish after inspection exposes illegal operation: ...

Oregon authorities seized around 2,500 pounds worth of illegally harvested smelt during a special, short season on the Sandy ...

LONGVIEW — This year’s Cowlitz River smelt dipping season went out a lot like it started: without much happening. The ...

The eulachon smelt fishery is truly a wonder ... Whitaker said he remembers fishing along the Sandy River in the 1980s when the smelt run was enormous. But, he said, numbers started declining.

The Department of Fish and Wildlife said Friday that no one caught any fish and no one received any license-related citations ...

Officials seized 2,500 pounds of illegally caught smelt in a poaching operation on the Sandy River, the Multnomah County ...

Authorities seized 2,500 pounds of illegally caught smelt during a joint poaching operation on the Sandy River, the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office announced.

The fish were seized during the one-day smelt dipping season along the Sandy River on Thursday, an event that saw thousands ...

On Thursday, hundreds of families and fishermen took to the banks of the Sandy River for the one-day harvest of eulachon smelt.

Fishing was restricted to bank-only dip netting ... as a spring break surge of eulachon returned in harvestable numbers. Under gray skies, people of all ages lined the banks for the first fishery ...