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Californians who care about a sustainable water future got a big court victory in March that upholds protections for a much-maligned little animal: the Delta smelt. The ruling handed down by the 9th ...

Fisheries officials prepare to lower a “smelt cam” into the Delta during testing in 2013. The device directs fish through a net into a chamber where they are photographed and identified by computer.

BETHEL ISLAND, Calif. - For two decades now, Michael Birch has spent about 150 days a year bass fishing for sport and in big-money tournaments on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday that the population of longfin smelt in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will not be protected under the federal Endangered ...

More than two dozen fishing rods were braced against the railing of San Francisco’s Pier 7, their lines dangling into the Bay. People chatted on the benches, shouting in Cantonese and leaping up when ...