Posted on 02/04/2025 1:57:43 PM PST by cuz1961
...Following President Trump’s recent criticism of the delta smelt — a fish he has tied to the lack of water for fighting the Los Angeles fires — his administration is planning to cut funding for a captive breeding program intended to ensure the survival of the endangered fish...A memorandum signed Jan. 20 by the president, titled “Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California,” calls for undoing fish protections and increasing delta pumping, in part to help Los Angeles area fire crews... .
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Winning.
Let the rich eco-nazi’s hold a bake sale, or fish fry, to fund it themselves.
The phony environmentalists have no problem killing whales and dolphins wholesale with their offshore wind turbines, but will scream bloody murder when the already mostly invisible Delta smelt disappears.
dumb ass little fish...its use is as bait. Grow them in a tank and transplant it to different areas.
They also have no problem killing off jobs and farms to protect a minnow.
Silly question:
Has anyone tried to breed these little beggars in captivity?
Bait is necessary to go fishing
It feels like Christmas every day.
“They also have no problem killing off jobs and farms to protect a minnow.”
That was a feature, not a bug. The delta smelt was a convenient excuse for Sacramento democrats to cut off water to farmers in the central valley of CA. The central valley is (1) overwhelmingly red/conservative, and (2) a breadbasket for the US, which globalists had to destroy to get us dependent on their synthetic “food.”
It is going to be fun watching the administration work their will on the EPA.
That agency has tormented average Americans for decades.
Nice!
Let’s see how many Californians are grateful. I know the rare republicans will be but how about the rest.
I look forward to seeing CA furnish tons of fresh produce once again.
Well, the reason people focus on this fish is that it is considered a ‘canary in a coal mine’; an indicator of the health of the delta ecosystem. If there isn’t enough water to sustain sportfishing and waterfowl supposedly the fish will display the effects first, so it’s not like preserving this one species is the reason for all the fuss.
I don’t care about the damned fish, but that water release did NO good and wasted 2 billion gallons of water without doing any good for LA or the farmers (who will need that water in summer, not now, that’s what the reservoirs are for). The only good it did was tweaking our idiot governor which is indeed delightful, but some reservoirs feed farms, some keep rivers flowing in summer, and some are for municipal use including fire fighting.
They didn’t do it to protect a minnow they did it to transfer a huge portion of the produce market to Mexico.
President Trump fixed the 32 year-old EnviroNazi Tyranny!
We could use Democrats.
One Democrat would last a long time.
the “ indicator species “ is what i first heard the spotted owl called when i was at the BLM.
they change the nomenclature periodically.
they have since admitted it was never endangered ( i know 1st hand how our wildlife biologist cooked the numbers in my resource area cuz he told me with a smirk ) and also interbred with the bard owl.
always check the pagan academic eco commies numbers and math cuz they lie like they breathe. . .
YAY!!!
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