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Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Map courtesy of USGS. Such was the case on a recent winter morning as some 25,000 Delta smelt made the 50-mile trip via tanker truck from the U.C. Davis Fish Conservation and Culture Laboratory near Tracy to the chilly, murky waters of the Sacramento River at Rio Vista.
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.
25 paź 2024 · When the Trump administration presented a new plan exporting more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta five years ago, state officials and environmentalists objected that the new rules would increase the chances that salmon, smelt and steelhead would go extinct.
23 sty 2024 · Inside, scientists are cultivating a slender, silvery minnow-like fish species with the aim of staving off its extinction, and reverse the course of decline of the long-troubled Delta smelt. Those familiar with the plight of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta need no introduction to the Delta smelt.
3 kwi 2015 · SAN FRANCISCO, California — A luminous little fish that smells like cucumbers and has the power to slow the flow of water to thirsty California cities and farms is swimming closer to extinction ...
5 wrz 2007 · To protect the smelt, a species unique to the delta, a federal judge issued a far-reaching ruling Friday imposing limits on water diversion from the delta.
