Their most distinctive characteristic is their long pectoral fins, which give the species its common name. Longfin smelt were once one of the most abundant open-water fishes in the San Francisco Bay ...

For a small fish found only in the San Francisco Estuary, the Delta smelt has caused much controversy over the years, ranging from lawsuits to executive orders. What is the history of the Delta smelt?

It’s the delta smelt. This threatened fish lives exclusively in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in northern California, where it depends on the slightly brackish water of the wetland.

Probably the most controversial fish in this region, if not in California as a whole, is the Delta Smelt. The Delta smelt is the poster child of all that is wrong in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

The Center for Biological Diversity has responded to President Trump’s decision to end funding for a delta smelt breeding ...

If you’ve followed Donald Trump’s attacks on California water policy in the mainstream media, you’ve been told how preposterous it is that he’s criticized the delta smelt. A column in the ...

It's an attempt to change the environmental protections of the smelt, a three-inch-long fish once vital to California's ecosystem but now nearly extinct, and criticize the state's efforts while ...

Pity the poor delta smelt. The tiny fish, which seldom grows to more than four inches or lives longer than a year, was once abundant in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. It was an important link ...

Their most distinctive characteristic is their long pectoral fins, which give the species its common name. Longfin smelt were once one of the most abundant open-water fishes in the San Francisco Bay ...

Endangered delta smelt hatched at UC Davis swim in a holding tank at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach in 2019 as part of an effort to revive a species threatened with extinction.