LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned today to protect the Santa Ana speckled dace, a small minnow native to Southern California streams ... “We’ve already lost seven of our ...

Like salmon, they spent most of their adult lives in the ocean, but spawn in freshwater streams and rivers. Southern steelhead are survivors, adapted to seasonally dry streams in the arid climate at ...

The largest freshwater fish in North America, which was once abundant in California’s major rivers ... who are expected to present a report within about a year. The commission will then decide ...