{"id":338,"date":"2015-07-18T10:46:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T17:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-07-18T10:50:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T17:50:59","slug":"longfin-smelt-update-theyre-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Longfin Smelt Update \u2013 They\u2019re Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April, I questioned whether Longfin Smelt, a state-listed endangered fish, are going extinct in the Bay Delta<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-338-1' id='fnref-338-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(338)'>1<\/a><\/sup>. The June surveys are in. The Bay Midwater Trawl, the Bay Otter Trawl, the Townet, and the 20-mm Survey show Longfin are at record lows with only a few caught in the Bay<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-338-2' id='fnref-338-2' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(338)'>2<\/a><\/sup>. One only has to compare 20-mm Survey results for June over the past three years to see the trend. Going, going, gone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-Before.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-339\" src=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-Before.png\" alt=\"Longfin Smelt Survey 2013\" width=\"642\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-Before.png 642w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-Before-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-Before-392x300.png 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-After.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-340\" src=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-After.png\" alt=\"Longfin Smelt Survey 2014\" width=\"642\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-After.png 642w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-After-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-After-392x300.png 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-2015.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-341\" src=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-2015.png\" alt=\"Longfin Smelt Survey 2015\" width=\"642\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-2015.png 642w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-2015-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Longfin-2015-392x300.png 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-338'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-338-1'> <a href=\"http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=64\">http:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=64<\/a> <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-338-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li id='fn-338-2'>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlife.ca.gov\/Regions\/3\">https:\/\/www.wildlife.ca.gov\/Regions\/3<\/a> <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-338-2'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in April, I questioned whether Longfin Smelt, a state-listed endangered fish, are going extinct in the Bay Delta1. The June surveys are in. The Bay Midwater Trawl, the Bay Otter Trawl, the Townet, and the 20-mm Survey show Longfin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=338\">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-338","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\/338","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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}