increasing water temperature, pollutants, and harmful nonnative species that thrive in the degraded Delta habitat. This smelt's catastrophic decline is a warning that we may lose other native Delta ...

Few streams in Ohio keep their cool sufficiently throughout the summer to sustain cold-water fish. Cold Creek, a 5-mile, meandering run of clear water that starts from holes in the ground and ...

I’m a fish that can live only in the California Delta. So, rest assured ... which impacted the flows of the fresh, cold water that is my lifeblood. By 1993, I was labeled a “threatened ...

After eggs hatch, larval and juvenile fish move or are transported by flow and tides downstream from freshwater areas in the upper Delta to the brackish low-salinity zone, where they rear for the ...

“I’m pretty sure all types of fish have some type of contaminants in it.” Environmental groups worry that, under current ...

He was referring to a fight over diverting water from the Delta to protect a native fish species called the delta smelt, and he was implicitly siding with farmers who argued they were more ...

Those passed in 2019 drew harsh criticism from environmentalists and state officials alike, who warned it would harm salmon and other Delta fish ... While more cold water will be stored in ...

to support protecting it for its own sake and the sake of the Okavango Delta. Neef, besides trapping fish, also saw to the gathering of water-quality data from two delicate sensors as we paddled ...

Probably the most controversial fish in this region ... "we cannot do such and such because it will endanger the Delta smelt..". Delta smelt are often at the root of water policy in California, and ...