Environmental
Feb. 3, 2011
Feds Must Reconsider Smelt Protection
A proposed settlement agreement filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco Tuesday could be a boon to the tiny longfin smelt, whose numbers have plummeted in the San Francisco Bay Delta.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may revisit whether the San Francisco Bay population of tiny longfin smelt merits protection as a threatened and endangered species.
Under a stipulated settlement agreement reached with environmental groups and filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the Fish and Wildlife Service will complete a new study of the status of the longfin ...
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