Nicknamed the "French fry of the lake," smelt are a bite-sized, mild-flavored fish that are best served lightly dredged and deep-fried. On average, they grow to about five inches in length ...

Advertising But the fixation on a tiny fish is less about facts and more about the politics of “us versus them,” said Caleb ...

A headline in Politico read, “Trump’s big vendetta against the tiny delta smelt.” A piece in Vox asked, “Why does Trump hate this tiny fish so much?” ...

Longfin smelt live for several years, spawning in freshwater and inhabiting estuaries and nearshore waters, and even ranging out into the ocean. Usually growing from 3.5 to 4.3 inches as adults, these ...

Delta smelt are tiny fish — most adults are less than 3 inches long — and nearly translucent, with a steely-blue sheen on their sides. As larvae, they start out eating microscopic food like ...

The order blames the “catastrophic halt” of water due to protections for the delta smelt, a small endangered creature that Trump recently called an “essentially worthless fish.” ...

A three-inch-long fish is at the center of a political debate over wildfire management in California as deadly blazes continue in Los Angeles.

The memo — titled “Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California” — similarly implies a connection between smelt protections and LA ...

It's an attempt to change the environmental protections of the smelt, a three-inch-long fish once vital to California's ecosystem but now nearly extinct, and criticize the state's efforts while ...

Probably the most controversial fish in this region, if not in California as a whole, is the Delta Smelt. The Delta smelt is the poster child of all that is wrong in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.