smelt

As the state has relied heavily on its water, native fish such as Chinook salmon, steelhead trout and longfin smelt have declined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

His deceit was uncovered when Helen's son smelt a rat and applied for Clare's Law, external, where you can ask if someone has a history of abusive offending.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Various types of native fish have suffered declines, including steelhead trout, white sturgeon and longfin smelt.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Look no further than GameStop’s $56 billion bid for eBay, which is the equivalent of a smelt swallowing a whale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

We smelt the water long afore we come o’er a hill and seent it ’bout a half mile off.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

The old heads insist on classics like smelts and baccalà, but there’s enough variety that the more “acquired taste” dishes don’t define the night.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025

"I don't think it would have happened from any area other than Aston with all of those foundries and factories and the smelts and the bomb sites," he adds.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

There was a recent first-person piece on the art of luring crafty little fish called smelts from the icy waters of Maine.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2017

Laborers — partly fleeing potato famines in Scotland and Ireland — arrived in search of sustaining work in the flourishing iron smelts, coal and shipbuilding yards and textile factories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2015

Soon after the ice goes out, while the water is still very rapid and turgid, the alewives run up, and they are as good eating as smelts, though too full of bones.

From A Northern Countryside by Rosalind Richards