Harbingers of a diminishing ecosystem, the smelt are almost extinct. Now, forces within the Trump administration could usher them into oblivionOn a warm November morning, John Durand squints over the stern of a small research boat, and gestures toward gray-blue water, and the chaotic tangles of tube-like tule reeds."Cache Slough right here had been known as a hotspot for delta smelt," he says. But it's been four years since Durand and his team of researchers from the University of California, Davis, have found the finger-length fish that gleam golden and "smell kind of like cucumber" in the brackish streams and sloughs of northern California's bay delta. Continue reading...
Delta smelt: the tiny fish caught in California's war with Trump
22. prosinece 2019 7:15
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/22/delta-smelt-fish-trump-california-aoe
Zdroj: The Guardian