smelt
Posted on 11/15/2009 10:17:41 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Two environmental groups sued the federal government Friday seeking greater habitat protections for two San Francisco Bay-delta fish species, one of them the delta smelt, a small but important creature in California's water wars.
One lawsuit asks a federal judge in Sacramento to require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to respond to the groups' March 2006 request to change the delta smelt's status from "threatened" to "endangered." That action would somewhat tighten federal standards for development or water-use permits.
A second suit, filed in San Francisco, challenges the federal agency's decision in April to deny protected status to the bay-delta population of the longfin smelt. The agency said the local population is not a distinct group entitled to protection because some of the fish migrate up the coast to breed with other longfin, a conclusion the environmental groups called a reversal of the government's longtime position.
"Formerly abundant fish at the base of the food chain in the San Francisco estuary are being driven to near extinction," said Jeff Miller of the Center for Biological Diversity, which filed the suits along with the Bay Institute.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Many of them are as deserving of Endangered status as any fish.
The theory being that we will be more, um, compliant if our food can be cut off at international whim.
Environmentalists make zero sense to me. They claim to be the protectors and lovers of nature. But part of nature is that species go extinct.
Perhaps these lawyers should file suit on behalf of dinosaurs.
Yep. Further our courts are a circus. They have no authority in this matter. The federal law that says they do is unconstitutional and the states need to tell the fed to pound sand under the tenth amendment.
Here is the solution:
Copper Sulphate and Rotenone as Fish Poisons
http://afsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1577/1548-8659%281939%2969%5B141:CSARAF%5D2.0.CO%3B2
Guaranteed to kill all the little fishy bastards.....
smelt
Aye.
No man’s life, liberty or property are safe as long as court is in session.
Their goal is to eliminate Americans.
Just in case you would like to contact these Commies.
Jeff Miller, Conservation Advocate, works primarily on endangered-species listing petitions, Bay Area sprawl issues, and public-lands grazing. He also does community organizing and media work around endangered species issues. Jeff has also been the director of the Alameda Creek Alliance since 1997.
Contact: San Francisco, CA, 415.436.9682 ext. 303, jmiller@biologicaldiversity.org
This company just donated $100k to them.
Stonyfield Farm Organic Yogurt.
They offer a free “No Farms No Food” Bumper sticker. What morons.
Here is their contact # I have alredy called them.
www.stonyfield.com
10 Burton Dr
Londonderry, NH 03053-7436
(603) 437-4040
Furthermore, their primary habitat is estuaries, NOT deltas! Perhaps they were never supposed to thrive in deltas anyway.
{ (Wikipedia)The longfin smelt, Spirinchus thaleichthys, is a smelt that is found in several estuaries and lakes along the northern Pacific coast of North America.
Their primary habitat is the open water of estuaries, where they can be found in both the seawater and freshwater areas, typically in the middle or deeper parts of the water column. They have been found as far north as Prince William Sound in Alaska, also in Skagit Bay, Grays Harbor, Willapa Bay, lower Columbia River, Yaquina Bay, Coos Bay, Humboldt Bay, the Eel River estuary, Klamath River estuary, and San Francisco Bay.
They have been collected from the mouth of the Russian River occasionally, and a single fish was once caught in Monterey Bay. In addition, there are landlocked populations in British Columbia's Harrison Lake, and the Lake Washington.
In 1992 the Natural Heritage Institute petitioned to list longfin smelts as an endangered species, but the petition was denied the following year, among the reasons being given was that the decline was not observed elsewhere.}
the greenies should be able to take their land too
And if a poor farmer doesn't have any land, just take his bank acount too
After all,if a farmer can't grow food , he's just a "USELESS EATER"
/SARC
Just in case you a “Reporter” you may want to call Jeff on his cell phone to ask him some questions.
Jeff cell phone # for reporters to ask questions is 510-499-9185
They go good with football and basketball.
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I plan on doing my part of eliminating these little critters later today.
Just in case you a “Reporter” you may want to call Jeff on his cell phone to ask him some questions.
Jeff cell phone # for reporters to ask questions is 510-499-9185
You smelt it, you delta it?
Time to load up a truckload of this smelt, let sit in the Sun for a week then force feed this whackos with their new food source.
Farmer's need water to grow our food.
No! You eat youa melamine. We Chinamen gonna eat youa country. We get rots of help fom Miz Nancy.
We are having a TEA party in Mesa, AZ in support of the CA farmers. Mesa Municipal Complex, 55 N Center St, Mesa, AZ 85211-East lawn across from the library.
www.teapartypatriots.org/FarmREliefFreedomRelay.
People and Farms ARE more important than fish!
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