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Problem with Delta Smelt Article
[edit]The article references a 2009 study which claims that only 5,000 jobs had been lost due to curtailment of water deliveries on account of the Delta smelt. However, it also says that the smelt wasn't listed as a California endangered species until 2010. It was after 2010 that the major curtailing of water deliveries occurred. Therefore, the number of jobs lost prior to the 2009 study seems close to irrelevant.
-David Pafford — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.208.145.86 (talk) 05:29, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
What is a BioOp/BiOp?
[edit]The article uses the term BioOp without defining it or having a link for it. Reading one of the sources, it probably stands for Biological Opinion, but I'm not sure. There is also one use of the term BiOp, which may be a typo of BioOp, or something else. BartonM (talk) 00:27, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
Likely devastating effects of the new water bill
[edit]Are there motions to mitigate the consequences of the new bill? --Perofsez (talk) 21:34, 3 January 2017 (UTC) Congress sends major California water policy to President Obama, despite Sen. Barbara Boxer's objections
Wakasagi
[edit]Why doesn't this article also include the introduction of the Japanese wakasagi smelt to California by the California Fish and Wildlife Service and how that negatively impacted Delta Smelt populations? There already is an article about the Wakasagi Smelt on Wikipedia that covers this, but no mention in the Delta Smelt article. Grunschild (talk) 07:44, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
California Wild Fires
[edit]The lack of water sources to fight the LA Fires are a direct result of the mismanagement of California water sources which priotized the Delta Smelt over the lives and properties of Californians. 71.219.162.178 (talk) 22:56, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
- I agree, and the suspicious and persistent removal of material confirming this that attested by multiple sources should be considered vandalism that warrants a ban 180.233.124.114 (talk) 13:24, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- We don't necessarily care about the bare fact that Trump said something if what he said is demonstrably false. That's why the article for cancer doesn't mention "windmills". I hate that I'm the first person to break it to you, but dude says a fair amount of things that aren't true. GMGtalk 14:19, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
I'm not going to take a position on whether or not Trump's claims should be included.
But I will take a poistion on this: If Trump's claims are going to be included, then fact checking of Trump's claims should also be included.
Here are some articles that fact check Trump's claims:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czj3yk90kpyo
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/394283/los-angeles-wildfires-trump-newsom-delta-smelt
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fact-checking-trump-claims-los-angeles-california-wildfires/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/politics/fact-check-trump-california-wildfires-fema/index.html
A Plumbing I Will Go (talk) 01:40, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
The article should mention that the fish could very well be extinct
[edit]When was the last time a delta smelt was seen? This article suggests they could well be gone already https://envirocentersoco.org/updates/2021/01/2021-is-this-the-year-that-wild-delta-smelt-become-extinct/ 98.7.197.219 (talk) 01:19, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- There have been sightings in the wild just this month: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258390812 FlightTerminationSystem (talk) 03:10, 23 January 2025 (UTC)