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

It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta ...

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?

That is pure fiction.’ Los Angeles takes most of its water not from the delta but from the Owens Valley (Payahuunadü, the ...

Donald Trump has criticized conservation efforts concerning the delta smelt as hampering California firefighting capabilities ...

The “smeltdown in the Delta,” as the extinction trajectory of delta smelt is known according to the Center for Biological Diversity, has left the once-abundant species in critical condition because of ...

The two-inch fish has long been a stumbling block to delivering water to the Central Valley and Southern California. The ...