Royal Guards of the Queen Smelt make their way through Canal Park during the Magic Smelt Parade. The parade was timed to pass under the Aerial Lift Bridge when the bridge was up, allowing the ...

Trump also once again described California as having a giant spigot that just needs to be turned on and all of California’s ...

The smelt — which is nearly extinct and endemic to the Delta — can’t hit back. ... BAO LI and QING BAO, the giant pandas who landed in Washington in October, ...

delta smelt might be a very small fish, but it has a giant impact on the food chain. IT PROVIDES DINNER TO SO MANY OTHER SPECIES, AND THE FEAR IS THAT IF THE SMELT DIES OUT, THE IMPACTS WILL BE ...

The delta smelt, at the center of a water battle, ... If California were to only open up the giant spigot from the delta to Southern California, he said, all would be fine.

If California were to only open up the giant spigot from the delta to Southern California, ... As recently as the 1950s, delta smelt were fished for food, said Jon Rosenfield, ...

There are certain things former President Donald Trump vehemently dislikes: Taylor Swift. Low-flow toilets. And a 3-inch-long endangered fish that lives in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta ...

There is a three-inch silvery fish — called a delta smelt — that needs fresh water to thrive. (It is considered functionally extinct, because no fish have been counted in seven years of ...

Authorities seized 2,500 pounds of illegally caught smelt during a one-day poaching sting on the Sandy River. The fish were confiscated during Oregon’s rare smelt dipping season and donated to ...