but didn’t care about the people of California." "Now," he continued, "the ultimate price is being paid." The "worthless fish" in question is the Delta Smelt, a small and endangered freshwater ...

Like salmon, they spent most of their adult lives in the ocean, but spawn in freshwater streams and rivers. Southern steelhead are survivors, adapted to seasonally dry streams in the arid climate at ...

“We’ve already lost seven of our state’s unique freshwater fish species to extinction, and it’d be a shame for California to lose any more,” said Jeff Miller, a conservation advocate at the Center.