Tag Archives: Delta smelt

New science or just spin: science charade in the Delta

Posted on March 15, 2020 by Andrew Rypel

By Karrigan Bork, Andrew L. Rypel, and Peter Moyle Science-based decision making is key to improved conservation management and a legal mandate in the US Endangered Species Act.  Thus supporters of federal efforts to increase water exports from the Central … Continue reading →

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Q & A on survival of California’s delta smelt 

Posted on May 17, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

Four years of severe drought and decades of huge water diversions appears to have pushed delta smelt to the point of no return. State biologists netted only a single smelt last month in trawl of 40 sites in San Francisco … Continue reading →

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Prepare for extinction of delta smelt

Posted on March 18, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Peter Moyle I saw my first delta smelt in 1972, during my first fall as an assistant professor at UC Davis. I was on a California Department of Fish and Wildlife trawl survey to learn about the fishes of … Continue reading →

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The ESA, fish and me

Posted on December 26, 2013 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

“Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed.”              — President Richard Nixon upon signing the Endangered Species Act on Dec. … Continue reading →

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Large delta smelt population found south of Delta

Posted on April 1, 2013 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

UC Davis scientists have found large populations of the federally protected delta smelt growing extraordinarily large in three Southern California reservoirs, hundreds of miles from its native waters. The smelt presumably colonized the lakes after being pumped from the Delta … Continue reading →

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Water to the sea isn’t wasted

Posted on March 1, 2011 by cathrynlawrence

By Jeffrey Mount In December of 2010 we had a remarkable set of storms.  Relentless rain and snowfall hit both southern and northern California.  The news reports about these events followed a predictable pattern, including the inevitable articles that bemoan … Continue reading →

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