Trump administration pulls funding for endangered California fish at heart of water wars

SFChronicle ^ | 2/4/2025 | Kurtis Alexander

[tumblindice]

Gruesome smelt it, he dealt it.

[lurk]

We have to save the little fish, because they are not smart enough to adapt or move their little finny fins to other wet places.

[Political Junkie Too]

I look forward to seeing CA furnish tons of fresh produce once again.

If California had kept the Central Valley growing region irrigated all this time, we wouldn't have the supposed avocado problem that Chuck Schumer was just crying about.

-PJ

[lurk]

Imagine the vast brown Central Valley filling with countless rows of green again.

[bunkerhill7]

Go fish.

[BigEdLB]

Especially Turban DeDurbin who is yaking right now

[AZJeep]

Yes,
The fish is functionally extinct in nature.
But, there are couple of aquarium facilities keeping some fish alive.
This fish lives for only one year, they need to be bred every year.
Trump apparently cut the funding even for these aquariums.
Let CA or rich sponsors pay for them. Hold a bake sale! It should not cost too much.

[bray]

Fake science.

[McGavin999]

California avocados were always better. Mexico picks them too green and then gases them tp ripen

[dljordan]

Wish they’d done that with the freaking snail darter in Tennessee. They lied and said it was endangered but they were everywhere.

[Aeneas2112]

I’ve heard they taste like chicken.

With enviro-nazis I always think about the quote from Humpty Dumpty:
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less”

[Karoo]

is Pres Trump going to eliminate the EPA

can’t we just ignore the EPA thus they no longer exist

bound to be a way to get rid of them

[butlerweave]

This fish needs to go extent to help California

[milagro]

California is having smelt-down!

[Old West Conservative]

Gov. Pritzker (D-Hippo) is the solution

[Army Air Corps]

As soon as someone decides that they are a tasty delicacy, there will be people breeding them to meet demand.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Odd. I thought the delta smelt was an invasive species to the Sacramento River Delta. That it could not unless the brackish water up there was diluted with (lots of) fresh water.