President Donald Trump issued an executive order to allow federal agencies to override state policies to maximize water amid ...

PORT ST. JOE, Fla. (WFLA)– The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and Wildlife Research Institute released more than 1,200 turtles back into the waters. With the cold temperatures ...

The weather has a lot to do with smelt fishing season, and depending on the year, it's not always a guarantee.

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Thursday its tentative schedule for recreational smelt dip net fishing on the Cowlitz River ahead of the first season in which a fishing ...

the delta smelt, has long been at the heart of high-profile habitat battles. The Fish and Wildlife Service proposed designating 91,630 acres as critical habitat Tuesday for California’s longfin ...

(Jacob Staff/USFWS via Courthouse News) (CN) — Federal officials this week will start the process of designating critical habitat for a distinct part of the longfin smelt population, a fish that last ...

Pity the poor delta smelt. The tiny fish, which seldom grows to more than four inches or lives longer than a year, was once abundant in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. It was an important link ...

Devastating wildfires in southern California are continuing to spread amid dry and windy conditions. At least 24 people are believed to be dead as of Tuesday morning, thousands of structures have been ...

However, some politicians and influencers have attributed the recent Los Angeles wildfires to conservation policies protecting the Delta smelt, a small fish species. These claims have gained ...

Trump accused Governor Newsom of rejecting a water restoration declaration that would have allowed billions of gallons of water to enter the state in a bid to save a fish called a smelt.

At its heart, Trump’s criticism centers on Newsom’s general management of state resources, specifically conservational rules aimed at protecting the delta smelt, an endangered, 3-inch fish ...