These encompass the most crucial habitats that provide the necessary water flows, temperature, salinity, turbidity and substrate conditions for smelt spawning, rearing and feeding. “Like most of the ...

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. In 1993, the smelt was listed as ...

Nothing, apart from a need for water. That hasn’t stopped President Donald Trump from taking aim yet again at the endangered delta smelt as he threatens to withhold federal aid from victims of ...

The order blames the “catastrophic halt” of water due to protections for the delta smelt, a small endangered creature that Trump recently called an “essentially worthless fish.” ...

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

Any move, such as declaring the Delta smelt as extinct or removing it from ... Smelt wait for these turbid conditions to migrate to their winter spawning grounds. Ever since this discovery ...

There were concerns about the tiny delta smelt, which is seen as an indicator ... which return annually from the Pacific to spawn in freshwater rivers. Then-President Joe Biden's administration ...

For a small fish only found in the San Francisco Estuary, the delta smelt has caused a lot of controversy over the years.