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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.
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.
The delta smelt, once abundant in the brackish estuaries of the San Francisco Bay-Delta ecosystem, now teeters on the brink of extinction. It’s a skirmish entwined with California water policies that affect millions, a fight where the stakes are as high as the towering Golden State peaks.
4 kwi 2022 · The Delta smelt is an iridescent fish about the size of a finger. The fish is a bioindicator, often noted for its distinct smell of fresh cucumbers. Though small in size, it has an impact reaching beyond the Delta, all the way to Capitol Hill.
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.
Reclamation and its state, federal and local partners recently completed the last experimental release of Delta smelt for 2024. Using a tanker truck to augment open-water release, the exercise transported some 25,000 smelt from the U.C. Davis cultivation laboratory at Tracy for release into the Delta at Rio Vista.
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.
