The most powerful man in the world is waging war on a tiny, almost extinct  fish. The fish is the minnow-like delta smelt, less than three inches long with a lifespan of only a year. Its sole natural habitat is the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta – a marshy maze of more than 1,100 miles of waterways, levees and islands where its namesake rivers intertwine. … It has become a flashpoint in the California water wars – the never-ending debate over the best use of a scarce resource in a state burdened with recurrent drought, wildfires, and the climate crisis. Now Trump is seizing control of the debate – regulations and the truth be damned.
–Written by columnist Bill Walker

Other fish conservation news:

• UC Berkeley: News release: A single dry winter decimated California’s salmon and trout populations
• The Trinity Journal (Weaverville, Calif.): Science, salmon and beavers: Tribal conservation in action
• KDRV (Medford, Ore.): Video: Salmon released into Klamath Basin
• U.S. Geological Survey: News release: Scientists continue their study of the Santa Ana sucker​