There is a crisis occurring in the Bay Area: Since 2013, there has been a dramatic increase in sea lion strandings due to starvation.

Three-judge panel rejects efforts by commercial, agricultural water users to overturn federal protections.

Three-judge panel rejects efforts by commercial, agricultural water users to overturn federal protections

California water management is not about protecting animals over people. It’s about coddling powerful special interests at the expense of average citizens, Delta farmers, commercial and sport fisherfolk—and a healthy Delta ecosystem.

Notes from a trip to the San Francisco Bay Delta to hear stories from people who would be directly impacted by a plan to pump massive amounts of freshwater out of the Delta to farms in the southern Central Valley.

Weakening of science-based plan threatens salmon in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and Delta

On Tuesday, a Fresno judge issued a mixed ruling on a federal salmon rebuilding plan critical to the survival of struggling Central Valley salmon runs as well as to the livelihoods of fishing families and communities throughout California and coastal Oregon. While Judge Oliver Wanger upheld the science underpinning the plan’s fundamental finding – that…

The fight over the health of the Sacramento/Bay delta is a fight over the most important estuary on the west coast of north America.

President Barack Obama came to California on Wednesday on a fundraising blitz, and California’s salmon-dependent communities tried a blitz of their own to turn his attention towards protecting the Sacramento River king salmon run. San Francisco Bay Area commercial and sportfishing groups, restaurants and seafood distributors published a half page ad in the San Francisco…

Call to streamline government achievable by reversing damage to salmon rivers and streams

State water officials recommend more water to save Delta; heavy water withdrawals have caused Delta, salmon runs to collapse

Groups oppose legal efforts by commercial water users and large agricultural interests to overturn federal protections for CA salmon and other species.

Papers filed to protect salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon and killer whales

Fishermen, tribes, and conservationists hail decision to protect fish, jobs, and local communities

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Decision by Judge Wanger on Central Valley salmon

Fishermen, tribes, and conservationists pleased that court recognizes need for changes to state and federal water project operations to better protect fish, jobs, and local communities