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CSPA shares their Delta vision with the Delta taskforce

Posted by: Maven on September 4, 2007 at 9:50 pm

Posted by Dan Bacher on IndyBay.org, a press release from John Buettler, Conservation Director for the California Sport Fishing Alliance, regarding the plan presented to the Governor’s Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Taskforce. The taskforce has been given until the end of next year (2008) to present a strategic plan for restoring the Delta. From the article:

The following advisory by John Beuttler summarizes the “Delta Fishery Recovery and Restoration Vision” of the Allied Fishing Groups and the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance submitted to the Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force. “Our vision includes the recovery and restoration of all the species resident to the Delta and its tributaries including Sacramento winter-run and spring-run Chinook salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon and pelagic species including Delta smelt, long-fin smelt, American shad, and striped bass,” according to Beuttler.

The need to implement this vision becomes even more urgent in light of the ruling by Federal Judge Oliver Wanger in Fresno last Friday ordering the state and federal governments to reduce pumping to save the Delta smelt. The alarming collapse of four pelagic (open water) fish populations – delta smelt, longfin smelt, juvenile striped bass and threadfin shad – must be stopped. The state and federal governments must drop all plans to increase water exports, and should instead decrease exports to save the ecosystem of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

The California Delta, the largest and most significant estuary on the Pacific Coast, can only be saved by a big effort by the federal, state and local governments to practice increased water conservation and take drainage impaired land in the San Joaquin Valley out of production. More dams and the peripheral canal, as proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a “solution” to the Delta’s problems, will only make the ecosystem’s problems even worse.

To read the rest of this article posted on IndyBay.org, which includes details of CSPA & AFG vision for the Delta, click here.

September 4, 2007 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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