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Perhaps the smell of candlefish fat, ubiquitous in later Northwest Coast Indian cookery, even then hovered over the first visitors’ fires.

Best action is right on the sandy bottom where fish are feeding on candlefish between the Caves and Eagle Bay, and off the Slip Point Buoy to Mussolini Rock.

“For us, it’s one of the most highly prized commodities that we have,” he said, pulling one of the glistening candlefish off the rack.

This summer, candlefish and Dungeness crab, for example, were reported in the estuary for the first time in decades, the AP reported.

Marine creatures such as eulachon, or candlefish, and Dungeness crab have been documented in the estuary for the first time in decades.