Smelt’s annual return from the ocean has long drawn thousands of dip-netters up and down the Cowlitz River. This year, however, the prized tradition will be different. The Washington Department of ...
LONGVIEW — This year’s Cowlitz River recreational smelt dip-fishing season kicked off Wednesday almost totally without its two most important elements: smelt and people dipping for them. Each year for ...
SEATTLE — NOAA Fisheries Service on Thursday proposed listing Pacific smelt as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The agency’s scientific review found that the fish is declining throughout ...