The Trump administration is weakening endangered species protections for delta smelt and salmon, which have curbed water deliveries to Central Valley farm districts.
also concluded that the proposed changes in delta operations would not jeopardize the continued existence of the smelt, which have all but disappeared from the delta, their only home.
Under the new rules, Souza said delta pumping restrictions would be based on real-time monitoring of where smelt and migrating salmon are swimming in the delta, rather than the seasonal prescriptions contained in the current regulations. Flexibility, real-time monitoring of the imperiled fish and dropping the existing seasonal pumping limits are all changes sought by Westlands and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. They and other water users have bitterly complained about cuts to their water deliveries resulting from endangered species protections adopted in 2008 and 2009.that would have incorporated those protections in state law.
“If the Newsom administration fails to fight this flawed water plan, the next drought may very well wipe California salmon off the map,” said Noah Oppenheim, executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Assns.
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