THEY DIDN’T
A physical count taken a couple of years ago:
MULTIPLE BOATS IN THE DELTA ALL DURING THE SAME WEEK-—TAKING “COUNTS”=====
AFTER ALL OF THAT THEY FOUND 7 ——SEVEN-—Delta Smelt.
How many of the boats counted the same smelt more than once???
I was not talking about a couple of years ago, more like a couple thousand years ago, or even earlier. There must have been prolonged droughts at times, yet the fish did not go extinct.