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Jun 22, 2020 · But in December, state and federal biologists began for the first time ever releasing captively bred adult Delta smelt into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in an effort to draw the species away from the brink of extinction.
Sep 29, 2023 · State water officials have said that existing requirements for water quality and flow through the critical but imperiled San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed have “failed to protect fish and wildlife” and must be updated “to halt and reverse the ecosystem collapse.”
Oct 13, 2021 · The Delta smelt population has plummeted over the decades since the State Water Project began exporting Delta water to San Joaquin Valley growers in 1967.
Dec 30, 2021 · The battle over environmental protections for Delta smelt has kept water from going to southern and central California farms and cities despite recent rains.
Apr 22, 2019 · The federally endangered delta smelt, a minnow on the brink of extinction, is at the heart of a bitter struggle over the use of California’s most important estuary, the Sacramento-San Joaquin...
Jun 1, 2018 · They also send water to 3 million acres of San Joaquin Valley farmland. To protect smelt from getting sucked into the pumps, they often get throttled back or shut off altogether. As a...
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Apr 3, 2015 · Water in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, fed by snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada, has been diverted to California's farms and cities for decades.
