Australian scientists have discovered an ancient freshwater fish fossil with its stomach contents remarkably preserved. In a ...

It’s hard to say if the low dipper turnout Wednesday was because of rainy weather, the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife’s new approach or the fact that smelt hadn’t yet made it into ...

Britton K. Ransford, a communications specialist for the southwest region of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the peak of smelt season was not expected to be Wednesday ...

In an Australian first, researchers have described a new species of 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish, ...

Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...

Scientists discovered a 15-million-year-old fish fossil, Ferruaspis brocksi. It has preserved stomach contents and visible ...

(Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Smelt dipping will return to the banks of the Cowlitz River as Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) approved recreational fisheries for Wednesday ...

for the opening of the state's brief smelt dipping season. All it took was a few empty nets for hopeful dip-netters to realize the small silver fish were nowhere to be found despite the ...

I’m just a little fish, not three inches long ... Today, I’m extinct in the wild. And the delta smelt captive breeding program (it’s even less sexy than it sounds), has struggled to produce ...

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 ...

The incredible Great Lakes smelt situation was so described last week by Dr. John Van Oosten of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The vast smelt population of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron (where ...