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

Bowdoinham’s Ice and Smelt Fishing Festival is a winter tradition, drawing tourists eager to fish and explore the town.

It's an attempt to change the environmental protections of the smelt, a three-inch-long fish once vital to California's ecosystem but now nearly extinct, and criticize the state's efforts while ...

But there’s one much lesser-known party that he has also targeted: a tiny fish called the delta smelt. “He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt,” Trump wrote on ...

A three-inch-long fish is at the center of a political debate over wildfire management in California as deadly blazes continue in Los Angeles.

The order blames the “catastrophic halt” of water due to protections for the delta smelt, a small endangered creature that Trump recently called an “essentially worthless fish.” ...

Donald Trump has derided the Delta smelt as a "worthless fish," blaming efforts to protect the species for the devastating ...

A headline in Politico read, “Trump’s big vendetta against the tiny delta smelt.” A piece in Vox asked, “Why does Trump hate this tiny fish so much?” ...

Wind power, low-flow toilets and efforts to protect a tiny endangered fish all took a hit ... and the delta smelt (he questioned this week whether it’s really endangered).