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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 · The Delta Smelt Controversy and the Flows of Water. 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).
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. State water officials say the ruling...
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.
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 ...
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).
3 sie 2023 · By sending a pulse of fresh water down from the reservoir releases, the smelt’s ideal zone of salinity—termed X2 by scientists—was pushed downstream, to encompass the Suisun Marsh and Suisun Delta, which historically were key foraging areas and the location where majority of the fish were found.
