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4 kwi 2022 · So long as temperatures continue to rise as predicted, the Delta of today – plagued with unrelenting droughts and contested water projects and chemical runoff – will never be the Delta of the smelt’s past. And eventually, without a proper habitat to enter into, those hatchery fish will have nowhere to go to.
The struggle to save the delta smelt, a fish native to the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta ecosystem, has mobilized conservationists and pitted farmers, urban dwellers, and industrial interests against one another in a fierce debate over state water policy.
Large Scale Delta Smelt Release - January 2024. Reclamation and its state, federal and local partners recently completed the last experimental release of Delta smelt for 2024.
2 paź 2024 · California water managers decided to curtail extra water flows intended to support endangered delta smelt. The change has sparked debate over protections for fish.
28 cze 2024 · The delta smelt is a little three-inch silvery blue fish that lives in the San Francisco Bay and the San Joaquin Delta, and its declining population numbers have incited California’s controversial water wars.
16 lis 2022 · The map below describes: 1) Critical Habitat for the delta smelt as defined by the Fish and Wildife Service. 2) Delta smelt historical range. 3) The majors rivers Sacramento (north) and San Joaquin (south) that feed into the Sacramento Delta and provide much needed freshwater, a barrier against saltwater encroachment from the bay.
Today, large areas of historic delta smelt habitat and designated critical habitat have become unsuitable for some life history stages of the species, though key environmental characteristics (e.g. temperature, salinity, water depth) of these areas have not changed.
