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The panel affirmed the district court’s summary judgment in favor of the agencies on NRDC’s fourth claim of relief, which alleged that FWS conducted an inadequate consultation on the effects of the Contract renewals on delta smelt and its critical habitat.
The delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) is an endangered [1] slender-bodied smelt, about 5 to 7 cm (2.0 to 2.8 in) long, in the family Osmeridae.
The Ninth Circuit issued its ruling in the Delta Smelt Consolidated Cases on March 13, 2014. San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Auth. v. Jewell, --F.3d--, 2014 WL 975130 (9th Cir., Mar. 13, 2014).
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.
Judge Oliver Wanger of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ruled Tuesday on a consolidated challenge to the delta smelt rules that the FWS' 2008 biological opinion...
3 paź 2022 · We found that Delta Smelt showed no temperature preference below 15 °C, a modest aversion to the warmer tank from 15 to 28 °C, and a strong aversion to the warmer tank with elevated mortality...
23 maj 2024 · Federal agencies properly upheld their duties when considering what effects government water supply contracts could have on endangered delta smelt and other fish, the Ninth Circuit found.
