Posted on 05/21/2025 6:08:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
House Republicans passed a measure Thursday that would repeal the government’s decision to place California’s longfin smelt, a finger-sized fish, on the endangered species list.
House members passed the resolution, introduced by California Rep. Doug LaMalfa (D-Richvale), in a 216-195 vote that followed party lines. The resolution now goes to the Republican-controlled Senate.
“We want to block the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s misguided decision to list the San Francisco Bay Delta population of the longfin smelt as being endangered,” LaMalfa, who represents a rice-growing region in Northern California, said before the vote.
He said the agency’s decision last year to declare the fish species endangered was “unscientific” and said it’s making it harder to deliver water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to farmers.
The resolution was condemned by Democrats, who said the resolution goes against science and years of study by federal wildlife officials.
“They’re turning a small fish into a very large scapegoat, pretending it will somehow provide real support to farmers,” said Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael).
“The longfin population has declined over 99% since the 1980s,” Huffman said. “The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service followed the law, the data and the science, just as Congress intended.”
The resolution would repeal the Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2024 decision under provisions of the 1996 Congressional Review Act, which...
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“Remove from Endangered Species List”
How about discontinue the list?
Or reclassify the list as a restaurant menu.
For the humor impaired, that was meant to be a joke.
Actually, fish that appear on restaurant menus tend to increase in population.
Oops. They base their argument on science.
Turn that water onto the farmland.
Isn't that every democRAT ever?
One of the many reasons the Left despised El Rush-Bo. He had sooooo much FUN!
A “finger-sized,” non commercial fish gets priority for scarce water - over people - in California.
Figures and goes right along with all the stupid stupid stupid policies and ideology that comes out of the state.
“A “finger-sized,” non commercial fish gets priority for scarce water - over people - in California.”
It make PERFECT SENSE, if you understand Leftists.
“ Figures and goes right along with all the stupid stupid stupid policies and ideology that comes out of the state.”
They then move out of California and go on to ruin the good places in the country. They are basically like locusts.
If you can’t eat it, and it’s not cute, there’s no point in preserving it.
I see what you did there.
How will mankind ever survive without this one species of useless fish?
It’s a good thing no endangered birds were chopped up by windmills.
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science ? is that real science
or “ I AM science “ type science ?
years of study and falsified data by federal wildlife officials like the one i worked with at the blm who admitted to me he swapped total acreage in place of suitable habitat acreage on the spotted owl survey that i also worked on with the field survey ?
that kind ?
the commie infiltrated and infested federal wildlife employee type of science ? . SPIT.
California’s longfin smelt, a finger-sized fish. As long as they leave my three-eyed walleye fish alone.
The democrats are going after family farms and cutting water so insiders can buy up the properties.
FTA: He said the agency’s decision last year to declare the fish species endangered was “unscientific” and said it’s making it harder to deliver water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to farmers.
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