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Saturday’s top of scroll: U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service finds uplisting of Delta smelt from threatened to endangered under Endangered Species Act “warranted but precluded”

Posted by: Maven on April 3, 2010 at 8:51 am

From the Central Valley Business Times:

“The Delta smelt, a minnow-like fish that lives only in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, but is often in courtrooms, could be listed as “endangered” under federal law, says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

But the agency says it cannot elevate the status of the fish from its current “threatened” level.

Based on accumulated scientific data, the delta smelt warrants uplisting from under the Endangered Species Act but that is precluded by the need to address higher priority species first, the FWS says Friday.

The Service will develop a proposed rule to reclassify this species as priorities allow, it says.

The finding of “warranted but precluded” will have no practical effect on protections for the delta smelt, existing federal actions, or water flows in the delta smelt habitat, it says. … “

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Read the press release from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service by clicking here.

April 3, 2010 · Filed Under Delta Issues, Wildlife & Endangered Species

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