The Infamous Delta Smelt Fish Has Not
Been Seen in Nearly a Decade – California
Allowed Its Cities to Burn to the Ground
Over a Fish That They Can’t Even Find Anymore
Gateway Pundit,
by
Jim Hoft
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
1/12/2025 12:55:28 PM
The tiny Delta Smelt fish have not been seen in the wild in California in over a decade.
And yet, California Democrats flushed annual water flow into the ocean to save this little fish that they can’t even find in its natural habitat.
Now several cities are burnt to the ground.
They sacrificed entire communities for a fish that doesn’t exist. (Snip) For the seventh September in a row, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has caught zero Delta smelt during its Fall Midwater Trawl Survey of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
The last time Delta smelt – an indicator species for the broader ecological health estuary – were found
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Digiconver 1/12/2025 1:06:02 PM (No. 1871997)
So Nero Newsom couldn't even save the smelts? What a disaster!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 1/12/2025 1:06:48 PM (No. 1871999)
The Knotsee California civil "servants" have ways to make you obey their propaganda.
16 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
kiwinews 1/12/2025 1:09:44 PM (No. 1872001)
If you think those little finny boogers had it rough before, just wait until the rain washes the residue of thousands of acres of urban fire residue into the waterways.
25 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Italiano 1/12/2025 1:10:18 PM (No. 1872002)
The same fish that caused Democrats to divert water away from Central Valley farmers and into the ocean.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
texaspast 1/12/2025 1:15:23 PM (No. 1872005)
I see them all the time when I go buy bait to go fishing. In East Texas, we call them 'minnows.' That's all the delta smelt is - or was, if they ever even existed. Ain't nothing but bait minners. And for that, you've destroyed California.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 1/12/2025 1:19:25 PM (No. 1872009)
OK so everything was sacrificed by THOUSANDS of people ( homes, businesses,
lively hoods, EVERYTHING ) 'trying' to save what I thought was a bait fish and NOW we find out the **** thing may very well ALREADY BE EXTINCT !!!
That's just great, isn't it !!
Please don't let these eco loons, along with hoards of other screwed up people, find out about things like the brontosaurus, the pterodactyl and others or we will have to make herculean efforts to ensure that those animals are not threatened in any way because those animals and many many others really are OUT THERE somewhere and must be protected even if we cannot FIND ANY OF THEM !!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/12/2025 1:25:55 PM (No. 1872013)
This has all the signs of black budget operations, much like Climate Change and the COVID scam. Identify something that can't be proven, call it a crisis and allocate money to it. Recognize the technique, Doctor Fauci? Most people don't have the time or resources to look for a little fish, measure temperatures back to the Ice Age or document Doctor Fauci's trips to China or find a biowarfare budget. Something stinks in California.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GOPinTN 1/12/2025 1:37:17 PM (No. 1872018)
Stupid is
as stupid does.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
gop_guys 1/12/2025 1:51:50 PM (No. 1872025)
Hello old l’dot friends. Peace & grace this next year to each and everyone. It was never about the silly fish. It is about Cali population reduction and control of the dystopian selected (not elected) politicians. 15 minute cities financed by Blackrock & Vanguard coming soon to the city of Angels.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 1/12/2025 1:57:34 PM (No. 1872029)
That explains it, #5. Even those endangered smelt fled CA and swam away to TX.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 1/12/2025 2:04:17 PM (No. 1872032)
This is one of the most important moments in history for the environmental movement when they were able to get this "bait fish" declared Endangered.
Though they have not found it in the wild for over 10 years, they continue spending money at various institutions to try to breed it and re-introduce it, but it also has many predators.
Time to declare the project over and return the water to help grow things and develop the State.
The building in SoCal alone could be a MASSIVE economic engine, if done properly.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 1/12/2025 2:16:09 PM (No. 1872034)
It's not the snail, mouse, or fish. I agree it is stupid. But those are excuse and if focused on, it will end in each ticked at the other. It was the embezzlement and mismanagement of funds by the leaders. This is how they weasel out every time. "We did it for the snails or mouse" then they are immediately half way home because of their base. It was the dems. That is the one common thread in all of this damage. Pin it on them, and keep pinning it on them. People are waking up. We are beginning to win, let's keep it going. We have four short years to save the country. Those who were beginning to wake up to it will slide back into their old ways and pull that lever for dem. ; just because.
There is criminal negligence involved enough to fill those soon to be empty J6 cells. Kash, Bondi, et. al. will handle that, we need voters focus on the dem rot that has been destroy our country.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LadyHen 1/12/2025 2:20:25 PM (No. 1872042)
If there is one classification of outrageous governmental overreach that I feel PDJT should address, it is the environment and climate science moonbattery that is literally destroying lives. CA is a perfect example but it really is everywhere and has been for 50 years. We need to GO BACK to the scientific method and tried and true methods. Science and medicine both have a long road back to respectability and trust in most people's minds.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Highlander 1/12/2025 2:27:19 PM (No. 1872043)
As with the little bitty fish, (would you believe there are certain species of locusts, flies, termites, and cockroaches, listed as endangered?), it’s not about the little would-not-be-missed obscure critters, it’s about leftist control of our economy. The Left is all about making others suffer for their devilish ideology. Environmentalism is just a convenient tool for its use. These people need to be eradicated of the face of the earth, blue hair and all!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/12/2025 2:49:11 PM (No. 1872049)
Pshaww....the hydrants are blocked because they are plugged with delta smelt,and it was spotted owls seen starting the fires...and they were ALL wearing MAGA hats!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 1/12/2025 4:09:32 PM (No. 1872076)
That rotten smell is not from smelt carcass'. It's from incompetent governing at the state and local levels. Californistanians voted for Do Expect Incompetence. They got it, big time.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 1/12/2025 4:18:47 PM (No. 1872083)
As Trump said, flushing half of the water that hits California in a year out to sea to "save" an extinct little fish. And from what I have heard, it is just a slight variation on smelt, and there are others which are nearly identical which still survive.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 1/12/2025 4:26:11 PM (No. 1872088)
If any city tries to pump water out of the Sacramento River, and they suck up 16 fish....the state requires a permanent shutdown on of that intake facility.
If you want a deep dive on Calif water....here you go. A COMPETENT white male who was on a major water board for LA area, and he says a lot of the water board members were opposed to any water storage or pumping infrastructure. And he points out that the last water project was completed in 1973 when California's population was HALF of what it is now. And the current requirements for any water products has to benefit ANIMALS and the environment, benefitting humans is NOT a valid reason for a water bond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH19B6dMXx0
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
franq 1/12/2025 4:30:32 PM (No. 1872090)
Last figure I saw was 10k structures destroyed. Containment still very low.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 1/12/2025 5:02:37 PM (No. 1872108)
The delta smelt is probably extinct, but is a minor variation on a very, very common kind of fish, which still have billions out there living just fine. So some biologist notes that "Hey this fish has a tiny spot on it, that the other ones over there don't have" and now we have a new subspecies. And now homes must burn so that some fish can have a tiny spot, instead of not having that spot. Now, I am not certain what the precise difference is between the Delta smelt and all the dozens of other kinds of smelt, but certainly the differences are the kind that only a biologist can detect. Of course, nowdays biologists can't define a woman, so how in hell would they know a Delta smelt from another kind of smelt?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
smidgen 1/12/2025 5:54:36 PM (No. 1872123)
That sucker is boiled now
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/12/2025 6:06:52 PM (No. 1872128)
The smelt outsmarted Newcom. What does that tell you about his ability to govern?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
crashnburn 1/12/2025 6:24:02 PM (No. 1872135)
Actually, the Delta Smelt is indigenous to Australia and here is considered a nuisance, at best.
It’s all about either running people out of CA to reduce its population or forcing them to live in high density housing to reduce the human footprint.
The left’s means of generating hysteria, then assuming control was global cooling, global warming, and now eco-terrorism. As soon as we see through one scam, they come up with another. Oh, yes. Covid hysteria was their latest scam.
I’m well educated, BSEE and MSEE, and spent 33+ years in Silicon Valley. However, I grew up on a ranch in KS and can recognize BS when I see it.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
john56 1/12/2025 6:24:28 PM (No. 1872136)
Gee. There are loads of smelt in the East Twin and West Twin Rivers just off Lake Michigan in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Everybody and their dog caught them by the bucket-full. I always thought it was a junk fish.
Now fresh lake perch, thar's another thing.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
rochow 1/12/2025 8:41:52 PM (No. 1872180)
Does not bother the green environmental Nazis to keep that garbage fish 'alive'.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
kono 1/12/2025 9:41:20 PM (No. 1872190)
#23 raises a most salient point - the Delta Smelt is technically and invasive species in California, to begin with.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/13/2025 4:15:40 AM (No. 1872238)
A new version of the snipe hunt. Searching for the Delta Smelt.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 1/13/2025 4:16:56 AM (No. 1872239)
Kinda like the Spotted Owl, which killed the logging industry in OR, MT.
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