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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.
5 lis 2021 · The Delta Smelt is a small fish, endemic to California that only occurs in the San Francisco Estuary. The slender-bodied fish typically reaches about 60-70 mm to a maximum size of about 120 mm (Figures 1, 2 and 3).
Amid the labyrinthine waterways of California’s lush delta, a controversy brews around a diminutive fish, the delta smelt. Often no more than a whisper in the roiling water wars, this endangered species has unwittingly sparked contentious debates across the sun-drenched state.
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.
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.
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.
