This smelt's catastrophic decline is a warning that we may lose other native Delta fish that have fallen to alarmingly low levels as well, such as longfin smelt, salmon, and sturgeon. In fact, the ...

Probably the most controversial fish in this region, if not in California as a whole, is the Delta Smelt. The Delta smelt is the poster child of all that is wrong in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Longfin smelt were once one of the most abundant open-water fishes in the San Francisco Bay Estuary — commercially important fish, key to the Bay food web. Today the species' numbers have plummeted to ...

The smelt fishing season is underway at Onuma Quasi-National Park in Nanae Town, Hokkaido – an activity that has almost a century of history behind it. In the first catch, fish size appears to ...

DELTA SMELT MIGHT BE A VERY SMALL FISH, BUT IT HAS A GIANT IMPACT ON THE FOOD CHAIN. IT PROVIDES DINNER TO SO MANY OTHER SPECIES, AND THE FEAR IS THAT IF THE SMELT DIES OUT, THE IMPACTS WILL BE ...

A longfin smelt in the San Francisco Bay area is measured during population surveys. (Credit: Jacob Staff/USFWS) SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — Baykeeper, an Oakland-based nonprofit that defends the health of ...