Tuesday Top of the Scroll: GOP moves to strip protection for fish at center of water wars
A long-running fight over California water and the fate of a tiny fish found a new front with a House measure to strip federal protections from the longfin smelt. Introduced Friday by Rep. Doug LaMalfa and six fellow Golden State Republicans, H.J. Res. 78 would undo the Fish and Wildlife Service’s listing of the longfin smelt’s San Francisco Bay Delta population as endangered. “This listing is just another example of out-of-touch environmental policies making it harder to store and deliver water in California,” LaMalfa said in a statement first published by LassenNews.com.
Other endangered fish news:
- The San Joaquin Valley Sun (Fresno, Calif.): LaMalfa introduces resolution to increase water pumping by repealing longfin smelt endangered listing
- KJZZ (Phoenix, Ariz.): This endangered fish native to Arizona will be released into a lake near Superior
