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.

The federal government has restored funding for a captive breeding program designed to ensure survival of California’s delta smelt, even as President Donald Trump has sharpened criticism of the ...

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 ...

More than three decades after being listed for protection, California’s delta smelt is “functionally extinct.” The Trump administration could hasten its demise. At just 3 inches long ...

Trump has professed his love for farmers and contends too much heed is paid to the tiny delta smelt, a federally-threatened species seen as an indicator of the health of California's Sacramento-San ...

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.