Search results
Feb 25, 2022 · Captively raised Delta smelt are being released into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for the first time ever. (Source: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) In the vast labyrinth of the West Coast’s largest freshwater tidal estuary, one native fish species has never been so rare.
People also ask
Are there smelt in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta?
How did the Sacramento & San Joaquin Rivers help smelt spawn?
Are the Central Valley Project and California State Water Project affecting smelt recovery?
Are smelt fish extinction a problem in California?
SACRAMENTO — This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), along with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, experimentally released captively produced Delta smelt into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
Habitat. The delta smelt is endemic to the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in California, where it is distributed from the Suisun Bay upstream through the delta in Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Solano Counties. The delta smelt is a pelagic (lives in the open water column away from the bottom) and euryhaline species (tolerant ...
Apr 22, 2019 · Efforts to preserve the smelt have relied on restricting delta water operations supplying the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California — regulations that have vexed agricultural interests...
- louis.sahagun@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Apr 3, 2015 · April 03, 2015. • 8 min read. SAN FRANCISCO, California — A luminous little fish that smells like cucumbers and has the power to slow the flow of water to thirsty California cities and farms is...
Jan 23, 2024 · The group of low-slung, nondescript buildings in a remote corner of San Joaquin County near Tracy are hardly noticeable and are not open to the public. Inside, scientists are cultivating a slender, silvery minnow-like fish species with the aim of staving off its extinction, and reverse the course of decline of the long-troubled Delta smelt.