{"id":3978,"date":"2021-11-15T21:49:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=3978"},"modified":"2021-11-15T21:49:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:49:32","slug":"delta-smelt-status-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=3978","title":{"rendered":"Delta Smelt Status 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Enhanced Delta Smelt Monitoring (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fws.gov\/lodi\/juvenile_fish_monitoring_program\/edsm\/Enhanced%20Delta%20Smelt%20Monitoring%20Report%20%28Weekly%20Summary%29\/EDSM_report_213_2021_10_22.pdf\">EDSM<\/a>) caught only 1 Delta smelt in 2200 smelt-targeted net tows in 2021.\u00a0 This compares to 49 captured in 2020 and hundreds in <a href=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?cat=6\">prior years<\/a>.\u00a0 None were captured in the Spring Kodiak Trawl 2021 survey (Figure 1).\u00a0 This year\u2019s results indicate that Delta smelt are likely virtually extinct in the wild.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3979\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3979\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3979\" src=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. Spring Kodiak Trawl survey index of Delta smelt (2004-2021), in which none were caught in 2021. Only one was captured in 2020. (source)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enhanced Delta Smelt Monitoring (EDSM) caught only 1 Delta smelt in 2200 smelt-targeted net tows in 2021.\u00a0 This compares to 49 captured in 2020 and hundreds in prior years.\u00a0 None were captured in the Spring Kodiak Trawl 2021 survey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/?p=3978\">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-3978","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\/3978","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=3978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3980,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3978\/revisions\/3980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calsport.org\/fisheriesblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}