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[Wes Rolley]

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Subject: 	Delta smelt: 9th Circuit decision protects people as much as fish
Date: 	Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:30:40 +0000
From: 	Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta 
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Reply-To: 	Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta 
<barbara at restorethedelta.org>
To: 	wrolley at charter.net <wrolley at charter.net>



Delta smelt: 9th Circuit decision protects people as much as fish
Our Op-Ed with Earth Justice is in the San Jose Mercury News.
	
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*Delta smelt: 9th Circuit decision
protects people as much as fish*

/By Trip Van Noppen and Barbara Barrigan-Parilla/

/Special to the Mercury News/

Californians who care about a sustainable water future got a big court 
victory in March that upholds protections for a much-maligned little 
animal: the delta smelt.

The ruling handed down by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals keeps in 
place science-based guidelines for managing water flows through the 
Delta at levels that protect the imperiled fish and help to restore the 
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem.

This victory isn’t really about the fish, however. The smelt are an 
indicator species, a canary in the coal mine whose health illustrates 
the overall well-being of the Bay Delta.

The tiny fish native to the Delta once thrived, but due to over-pumping 
of fresh water, largely for industrial-scale agriculture, it is 
teetering on the edge of extinction.

Many other species that rely on freshwater in the Delta, such as salmon, 
a $1.4 billion industry, have declined alongside their little silver 
cousins. Our efforts to improve flows through the Delta for the smelt 
have beneficial effects on the entire ecosystem and the complex web of 
life it supports. /*Read the rest of our op-ed with Earth Justice here. 
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