California Delta Peripheral Canal – Destruction of the California Delta as an estuary
August 18, 2009 by Steve@316
Filed under Angling News
“The word is out. Certain legislators in Sacramento are determined by any means to destroy the Delta by moving legislation ahead to construct a water conveyance system comparable to the Panama Canal circumventing the fresh water flows into the Delta which will surely nail the coffin closed for the greatest estuary in the western hemisphere.”
“Restore the Delta is a grassroots campaign committed to making the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta fishable, swimmable, drinkable, and farmable to benefit all of California. Restore the Delta – a coalition of Delta residents, business leaders, civic organizations, community groups, faith-based communities, union locals, farmers, fishermen, and environmentalists – seeks to strengthen the health of the estuary and the well-being of Delta communities. Restore the Delta works to improve water quality so that fisheries and farming can thrive together again in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Learn more about current legislation being proposed for the Delta and about the Peripheral Canal.
The task force is recommending “dual conveyance” facilities that will result in the destruction of the California Delta as an estuary – and seal the doom of Central Valley fall run chinook salmon and Delta smelt, longfin smelt, threadfin shad, striped bass and other fish populations. This plan will have catastrophic consequences up and down the West Coast, since the Delta is the largest and most significant estuary on the Pacific Coast. The San Francisco Bay-San Joaquin Delta is a nursery, spawning ground and migratory corridor for an array of species, including fall, spring and winter run chinook salmon, steelhead, white sturgeon, green sturgeon, striped bass, delta smelt, longfin smelt, threadfin shad, Sacramento splittail, Dungeness crab and herring.”
California Sportfishing Protection Alliance
