In 2025 the Service proposed to designate 91,630 acres of critical habitat for the San Francisco Bay population of longfin smelt in San Pablo and Suisun bays and the Delta. Unsustainable water ...
A longfin smelt in the San Francisco Bay area is measured during population surveys. (Jacob Staff/USFWS via Courthouse News) (CN) — Federal officials this week will start the process of designating ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to designate 91,630 acres of critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the critically imperiled San Francisco Bay ...
At issue is the longfin smelt, whose better-known relative, the delta smelt, has long been at the heart of high-profile habitat battles. The Fish and Wildlife Service proposed designating 91,630 ...
Others in steep decline include longfin smelt, American shad ... they depend on ample freshwater outflow to support their habitat, and such flows decline during drought. The fish have long ...
A longfin smelt in the San Francisco Bay area is measured during population surveys. (Jacob Staff/USFWS via Courthouse News) (CN) — Federal officials this week will start the process of designating ...