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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.
4 kwi 2022 · A vanishing number of Delta smelt in San Francisco Bay is finding a changing climate contributing to its declining numbers.
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.
11 sie 2024 · According to the dominant journalistic framing, the Delta Smelt is politically explosive due to the perceived zero-sum nature of California’s limited water supply: more water for fish means less water for people (and the agricultural industry in particular). There is a grain of truth in this diagnosis.
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.
1 paź 2024 · The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) are kicking off this new water year by cancelling the fall flow protection for Delta Smelt — once one of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta’s most common fish — and now its rarest.
12 sty 2015 · The U.S. Supreme Court has left in place limits on water exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect the Delta smelt. The justices on Monday rejected appeals from San Joaquin Valley farmers and urban water districts that had challenged water-pumping restrictions put in place by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2008 to protect ...
