The California Fish and Game Commission today voted unanimously to protect the longfin smelt as a threatened species under the California Endangered Species Act (ESA), as well as changing the state protected status of delta smelt from threatened to endangered, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.
Jeff Miller, conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity, castigated Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for his campaign to build the peripheral canal and Temperance Flat and Sites dams. "Governor Schwarzenegger and water agencies are still pimping an expensive and environmentally devastating peripheral canal and new dams that would take even more water out of the Delta, worsening the fisheries crash and making Delta water more toxic," said Miller.
Here is the press release:
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