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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.
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.
25 paź 2024 · Delta smelt, once a common species, are now nearly extinct. The small, silvery fish only lives in the Delta, and it’s long been a potent figure in California’s water wars. Delta smelt swim in a tank at the UC Davis Fish Conservation and Culture Laboratory on July 19, 2022.
4 kwi 2022 · A vanishing number of Delta smelt in San Francisco Bay is finding a changing climate contributing to its declining numbers.
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.
2 sie 2024 · The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday said it won’t rehear a challenge to long-term water contracts with California’s Central Valley Project brought by a group of environmental organizations concerned about the welfare of endangered delta smelt.
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.
