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

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

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

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 ...

The imperiled fish got a boost this week as flood waters flowed onto land that had been used for agriculture for a century ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.