Give me a walleye from a Minnesota lake, a trout from a mountain stream in Idaho or even a catfish from a commercial farm in Mississippi and you have far tastier fish than any smelt I've ever eaten. Most of them are so damn small and bony, you are better off pressure cooking them, packing them in chilli sauce and eating them whole like a sardine.
It doesn't sound to me like delta smelt are even a fish species, merely a variety. And varieties in the animal kingdom (as well as the plant kingdom) come and go all the time.
The main thing is they have never been endangered by the pumps before, why now, all of a sudden, are they in danger? The answer: They are not. This is all a part of the attempted take over of our country. A classic communist ploy, starve the people into submission. Gov Ahhhhnold needs to send the guard out to the pumps, turn them on and dare the feds to do anything about it.
I’ve read that the delta smelt isn’t even native to the area.
I believe they just latched onto it in order to mess with our food supply.
Have you ever noticed that most of the “endangered species” eat what we eat?