With a dramatic scoop of an excavator, water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta surged onto a 3,400-acre stretch of land this week for the the first time in a century. This ceremonial ...

Delta smelt are tiny fish — most adults are less than 3 inches long — and nearly translucent, with a steely-blue sheen on their sides. As larvae, they start out eating microscopic food like ...

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 Trump administration has ended federal funding for a captive breeding program for California’s endangered delta smelt, threatening the future of the fish that the president blames for ...

The state cut in half the amount of water it is pulling from the Delta to send to cities and farms, citing environmental ...

President-elect Donald Trump has found the real culprit behind Los Angeles' massive and devastating wildfires: the Delta smelt fish. In a post on his failing Truth Social platform, the forthcoming ...

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.

According to the Sacramento Bee, this week California water managers halved the amount of water being pumped from the ...

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