http://fishsniffer.com/index.php/2016/06/24/sacramento-judge-tosses-out-delta-plan/ by Dan Bacher June 24, 2016 Judge Michael Kenny of the Sacramento Superior Court on June 23 ruled that the Delta Plan is “invalid” after a successful legal challenge by multiple Delta parties who argued that the controversial plan doesn’t protect water quality or the many fish species that depend on fresh water flows…

http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/san-joaquin-river-delta/2016/06/23/judge-delta-plan-is-invalid/ By ALEX BREITLER Published: JUNE 23, 2016 A judge clarified today that the Delta Plan — a broad management plan for the estuary through the end of this century — is invalid and must be set aside until it can be partially rewritten. If that sounds familiar, it’s pretty close to what we reported…

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/20/1540736/-Water-Contractors-Launch-New-Attack-on-Striped-Bass-Black-Bass By Dan Bacher Monday Jun 20, 2016 · 1:03 PM PDT The Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, the Astroturf group bankrolled by Beverly Hills agribusiness tycoon Stewart Resnick, on June 9 submitted a new petition to the California Fish and Game Commission to raise the bag limit and reduce the size limit on striped bass in an…

http://www.modbee.com/news/business/agriculture/article84508302.html JUNE 17, 2016 4:58 PM BY JOHN HOLLAND The photo with this column can’t help but draw your eyes. It shows a baby salmon being removed from the gut of a non-native bass that preyed upon it on the Tuolumne River. Irrigation districts have used the shot in claiming that predator control would serve…

http://www.sfchronicle.com/science/article/Delta-smelt-on-the-brink-8153234.php By Peter Fimrite June 15, 2016 The fight to save the delta smelt, the beleaguered fish at the center of an increasingly bitter tug-of-war over water rights in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, is as close to a lost cause as ever, but fisheries biologists vow to continue the struggle to protect the species.…