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

The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office seized approximately 2,500 pounds of illegally harvested smelt last Thursday during a ...

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

People filled a bucket of eulachon smelt in just a few minutes during the erratic fishery along the Sandy River near Troutdale. Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB This was the Sandy River eulachon smelt ...

A rare one-day smelt dipping season on Thursday drew crowds to Troutdale’s Sandy River, as a spring break surge of eulachon returned in harvestable numbers. Under gray skies, people of all ages lined ...

Typically this time of year is quiet in terms of search and rescue efforts in Skamania County, but not this year. Portland Thorns player Deyna Castellanos won’t be able to leave the U.S. and ...

READ ALSO: $10,000 reward offered in search for poacher who killed endangered gray wolf in Oregon The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife notes that eulachon smelt were listed for protection ...

If boxes or dishes had lids, sometimes these were made from basketry as seen in the pictures below. The dishes below are shiny from holding eulachon grease. Eulachon grease is made from a small fish ...

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