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  • Thousands of Pacific herring entrained in Delta pumps this year

    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/15/18758656.php by Dan Bacher Tuesday Jul 15th, 2014 2:13 PM For commercial fishermen, the Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii, is the target of a valuable roe fishery in San Francisco Bay every winter. For recreational fishermen, the Pacific herring is a popular bait to fish for salmon, lingcod, rockfish and other species with from a private or…

  • Delta smelt on the scaffold of extinction, says new report

    http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=26289 STOCKTON July 14, 2014 6:16am Fish numbers have dropped sharply “A species that existed in this estuary for thousands of years … is on the scaffold” Cable TV and talk radio bloviators and politicians may soon have no more Delta smelt to ridicule. The minnow-like fish, which lives only in the waters of the…

  • Federal judge denies motion to block water transfers

    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/07/11/18758503.php by Dan Bacher Friday Jul 11th, 2014 6:40 PM A federal judge on July 11 denied a motion by an environmental group and fishing organization for a preliminary injunction against water transfers from northern California to San Joaquin Valley irrigators. Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill of the U.S. District Court in Fresno rejected the motion for…

  • Slowing the flow: Chico’s AquAlliance, sport fishers’ organization file water transfer lawsuit

    http://www.newsreview.com/chico/slowing-the-flow/content?oid=13767999 By Alastair Bland Chico’s AquAlliance, sport fishers’ organization file water transfer lawsuit For water-thirsty farmers and municipalities in the San Joaquin Valley, the Delta smelt is an easy victim to blame. For years, right-wing media pundits and water district spokespeople have expressed outrage that farmers must, at times, sacrifice their irrigation privileges to protect…

  • FPPC complaint against Jerry Meral filed amidst culture of corruption

    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/16/18757488.php by Dan Bacher Monday Jun 16th, 2014 5:19 PM Remember Jerry Meral, the guy who claimed the “Delta cannot be saved” while he was working for the Brown administration on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels? (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/26/1205064/-Five-Congressional-Democrats-call-for-Brown-administration-official-s-resignation) Well, it appears that Meral has run afoul of the state’s laws…