House Republicans vote to repeal a decision that placed a California fish, longfin smelt, on the endangered species list. Democrats and environmentalists condemned the action.

Other fish species have also suffered declines in the delta in recent years. Surveys have found dwindling numbers of delta smelt in the wild. Winter-run Chinook salmon are endangered. And the ...

Federal and state officials added the fish to their endangered species listings in 1993, but the delta smelt’s population continued to dwindled, with no fish counted in surveys for the past six ...

The longfin smelt was already listed as a threatened species under California’s Endangered Species Act, prohibiting the unpermitted possession, purchase, sale or take of the species. The service’s ...

As a result, the bay-delta longfin smelt was added to the candidate species list. In 2020, FWS again concluded that listing the fish was warranted but precluded it due to higher priorities.

Endangered Species Act turns 50 02:07. The longfin smelt, a fish the length of a popsicle stick that once fed hundreds of San Francisco Bay animals including humans, was just added to a growing ...

Today's Climate Why Trump Keeps Blaming the Delta Smelt for California’s Water Woes—and What It Could Mean for Endangered Species A small endangered fish is at the heart of a controversy over ...

After the Delta smelt, there are just several other local species — they will disappear. They (are) already in danger.” Boaters head south on the Sacramento River, north of Locke, through the ...