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 ...

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 ...

Nation's largest public water district hires a science adviser with an extensive research background in fisheries and the ...

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 ...

Scientists are now warning of an ecological crash of fish populations and the Delta food web due to increasing water diversions for export, loss of habitat, increased competition and predation from ...

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 ...