Delta smelt happen to be one of the best indicators of environmental conditions in the San Francisco Bay-Delta. This ecologically important estuary is a major hub for California's water system — and ...

Under pressure from Delta water exporters, state agencies successfully petitioned ... period when longfin smelt benefit from high levels of freshwater flow into the Bay’s estuary to thrive. This ...

From the Bay Area to Sacramento ... state’s largest estuary has “discriminated on the basis of race, color and national ...

Now Hood, population 271, is facing a formidable transformation that residents fear will shatter their sleepy agricultural community. One of the smallest towns in the region, Hood lies at ground zero ...

At just 3 inches long, the delta smelt is silvery and translucent ... that outcompeted the smelt for food in the San Francisco Bay estuary to the pumps that direct the region’s water supply ...