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24 cze 2019 · Delta smelt are small free-swimming fish that are exceptionally vulnerable to environmental change. These fish are unable to swim against the currents of the pumping plants, easily subjected to the competition of invasive species, and commonly preyed upon by larger fish.
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.
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.
14 lis 2019 · California’s endemic Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) is rapidly approaching extinction in the San Francisco Estuary, placing it in the crossfire between human and environmental uses of...
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.
29 maj 2022 · The ultimate goal of this Plan was to improve habitat conditions for Delta Smelt so it could be removed from the ESA list once it was no longer threatened with extinction. Twenty-five smelt generations later, this goal has not been achieved, and Delta Smelt populations have declined further.
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.
