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If we want more delta smelt, a finger-length minnow at the center of California’s latest water crisis, why don’t we just grow more, asked State Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter.
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He plans to introduce a bill to that effect on Monday.
His bill, SB 994, would establish a fish hatchery in the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta to grow smelt on a scale that would increase the population enough to take them out of the “threatened” category under Endangered Species laws.
He said he came up with the idea when he and a couple of farmers were sitting around talking about the water crisis.
“It’s just a common sense deal,” Florez said.
Brent Walthall, assistant general manager of the Kern County Water Agency, called the bill a “very good first step.”
Posted on 4/22/08; 4:08:49 PM to the Local Dems Department Send email to Yellow Dog- Discuss
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