{"id":141,"date":"2015-04-22T03:47:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T03:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2015-06-17T19:01:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T02:01:54","slug":"april-delta-smelt-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"April Delta Smelt Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chart below shows the recent record low catch of Delta smelt in the recent early April Kodiak Trawl by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u00a0 Trawls at 40 locations in the estuary collected a single Delta smelt, the fewest ever collected.\u00a0 This result is consistent with other recent surveys, including the 2014 Fall Midwater Trawl (lowest in the historical record), the late April 2015 Smelt Larva Survey and early April\u00a020 mm Survey.\u00a0 Delta smelt, once the most numerous species in the estuary, is now hovering on the brink of extinction.\u00a0 Longfin smelt are not far behind. \u00a0Yet the State Water Board continues to weaken already inadequate criteria established to protect these and other species.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kodiak-Trawl-Survey.png\" alt=\"Kodiak Trawl Survey\" width=\"591\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kodiak-Trawl-Survey.png 591w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kodiak-Trawl-Survey-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Kodiak-Trawl-Survey-370x300.png 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chart below shows the recent record low catch of Delta smelt in the recent early April Kodiak Trawl by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u00a0 Trawls at 40 locations in the estuary collected a single Delta smelt, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=141\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bay-delta","category-smelt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}