In California, people that depend on dwindling salmon populations say they stand to lose everything if more water is diverted ...

The federal government has reinstated funding for UC Davis’ delta smelt breeding program, a critical conservation effort.

The University of California, Davis' Fish Conservation and Culture Laboratory was in financial limbo after its grant lapsed.

Delta smelt are tiny fish — most adults are less than 3 inches long — and nearly translucent, with a steely-blue sheen on their sides. As larvae, they start out eating microscopic food like ...

Today, I’m extinct in the wild. And the delta smelt captive breeding program (it’s even less sexy than it sounds), has struggled to produce more of me — and may soon be dead. The Trump ...

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.