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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.
The delta smelt is endemic to the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in California, where it is distributed from the Suisun Bay upstream through the delta in Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Solano Counties.
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.
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.
3 kwi 2015 · SAN FRANCISCO, California — A luminous little fish that smells like cucumbers and has the power to slow the flow of water to thirsty California cities and farms is swimming closer to extinction....
8 gru 2017 · The Delta Smelt Hypomesus transpacificus is a small translucent fish that lives in the heart of California's water distribution system. It is an endemic species that is on verge of extinction, largely because it is in direct competition with people for water.
