On Thursday, WDFW approved dipping on Wednesday and March 22 — the last day of the season. Saturday's dipnetting is also ...

Delta smelt are often at the root of water policy in California ... That cannot happen. The original delta was a sea of tule grases, marshes and wetlands extending from Sacramento down to the East Bay ...

“Sea lampreys killed more than 100 million pounds ... in the 1960s to gobble up the smaller creatures. The tiny shiny smelt, themselves an invasive species, also have dramatically declined ...

The Delta smelt is a small, three-inch-long fish native ... by water flows through the estuary since it cannot thrive when sea water makes up more than one third of the total.