Since the Endangered Species Act classifies the Eulachon smelt as threatened, recreational harvests are limited. Only four times in the last 15 years have people been allowed to harvest them.

W hether the Columbia River’s eulachon smelt run will make its way into the Sandy River is always a crap shoot, but this year’s run appears to have waited for spring break. A pulse of the ...

Hooligan carry major cultural and ecological value in the Chilkat Valley. So why don’t we know more about them? By high tide ...

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 ...