Tag Archives: extinction

An update on California fishes of ‘special concern’

Posted on October 22, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Peter Moyle Three-fourths of California’s native fishes are now officially designated as being in trouble, or potentially so. The good news is that not all of these species – 93 of the total 123 native fishes today – have … 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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Have our salmon and eat them too: Re-thinking Central Valley salmon hatcheries

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

By Jacob Katz and Peter Moyle In the previous blog, Jay Lund argued that wide-scale, integrated management of California’s water system will better balance water needs of the environment and water demands by humans.  Here we expand on the need … Continue reading →

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Reconciliation or extinction—the future of California?

Posted on February 8, 2011 by cathrynlawrence

By Peter Moyle It is easy to be pessimistic about the future of familiar life on this planet, especially here in California. We face an ever-growing human population, the rise of consumerism, and the refusal of most Americans to recognize … Continue reading →

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