{"id":2162,"date":"2018-05-30T18:51:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T01:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2018-06-06T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T01:02:12","slug":"and-then-there-were-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=2162","title":{"rendered":"And then there were none\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>ARE DELTA SMELT FINALLY EXTINCT? HAS THE CANARY SUNG ITS LAST SONG?<\/h1>\n<p>In late April and early May 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlife.ca.gov\/Conservation\/Delta\/20mm-Survey\">20-mm Surveys<\/a> collected no Delta smelt (Figure 1) in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary. It\u2019s a new low for Delta smelt since the survey began in 1995, worse even than the 2017 survey catch (Figure 2). The outlook for the population as indexed by the summer and fall surveys looks grim after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfg.ca.gov\/delta\/data\/fmwt\/Indices\/sld002.asp\">record lows<\/a> from 2012-2017. Despite good conditions in spring 2018, the number of adult spawners was too low, indicating a weak recovery potential.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2163\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2163\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2163\" src=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image1-1-1024x674.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image1-1-1024x674.png 1024w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image1-1-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image1-1-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image1-1-456x300.png 456w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image1-1.png 1101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. Catch and lengths of Delta smelt collected in the 20-mm Survey in spring 2018. None were collected in surveys 4 and 5<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2164\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2164\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2164\" src=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image2-2-1024x680.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image2-2-1024x680.png 1024w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image2-2-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image2-2-768x510.png 768w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image2-2-452x300.png 452w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/image2-2.png 1189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 2. Catch and lengths of Delta smelt collected in the 20-mm Survey in spring 2017.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARE DELTA SMELT FINALLY EXTINCT? HAS THE CANARY SUNG ITS LAST SONG? In late April and early May 2018, 20-mm Surveys collected no Delta smelt (Figure 1) in the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary. It\u2019s a new low for Delta smelt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=2162\">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-2162","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\/2162","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=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}