It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta ...

Pumping to supply farms and cities has contributed to the ecological degradation of the Delta, where the fish species that are listed as threatened or endangered include steelhead trout, two types of ...

Agricultural industry leaders in the San Joaquin Valley often blame insufficient supplies on environmental regulations that prioritize habitat protections ... like the delta smelt, salmon ...

Even as some modest pumping restrictions were in place on Friday due to a lesser-known fish, the longfin smelt, the pumps were still diverting roughly 2.7 billion gallons of water. Now Southern ...

The longfin smelt, a species that once was abundant, was listed as endangered last year under the federal Endangered Species Act. Longfin smelt have suffered major declines in the San Francisco ...

Jennifer Pierre, general manager of the State Water Contractors — which relays Delta water to 27 million Californians and 750,000 acres of farmland — pointed out that longfin smelt was ...

The Delta smelt is a small, three-inch-long fish native to California's San Francisco Estuary. Listed as endangered under state and federal laws, its habitat is dictated by water flows through the ...

BOWDOINHAM, Maine — Jim McPherson’s smelt fishing shacks are back on the ice at Jim’s Camps in Bowdoinham after two unusually warm winters. For McPherson and his longtime employee, Derek Saxon, this ...

It's an attempt to change the environmental protections of the smelt, a three-inch-long fish once vital to California's ecosystem but now nearly extinct, and criticize the state's efforts while ...

It's an attempt to change the environmental protections of the smelt, a three-inch-long fish once vital to California's ecosystem but now nearly extinct, and criticize the state's efforts while ...