For Immediate Release: Thursday, February 7, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com;Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… California Progress Report Delta Whopper: How Big Water Spins the Science on Water Policy By Zeke Grader Published on February 07, 2013 Fishermen are my constituents – I work with them...Read More
Delta Stewardship Council Chair Phil Isenberg spends hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours of his life listening to people talk about the Delta, and he asks leading questions. To get an idea of what he thinks about all that, we can take a look at a speech he delivered on January 28 as part of the...Read More
An especially interesting part of Isenberg’s comments relates to his views of how science fits into BDCP. He says it isn’t clear how the proposed management/science system will work. He notes that the current BDCP governance proposal seems to place water operations and ecosystem operations in different organization silos. “It is hard to see how...Read More
Isenberg has other questions about BDCP, including these: 1. Is BDCP obligated to meet the coequal goals of state and federal law? 2. Will BDCP include assumptions about decreased reliance on Delta water for future uses? 3. What is the status of BDCP legal guarantees on levels of water export from the Delta? ...Read More
Isenberg refers to a variety of near-term actions that have been proposed or undertaken and speculates about a “legislative near term deal” that would, among other actions: Improve the current Delta water export system, the Delta ecosystem, and Delta flood protection for statewide and in-Delta interests. Use existing federal and state agencies along with independent...Read More
Almost annually since 1967, the California Department of Fish and Game has conducted a Fall Midwater Trawl Survey (FMWT) from September through December to index the fall abundance of pelagic fishes. Here are results from the 2012 Survey, completed December 12: Delta smelt index – 42, one of the lowest indices in FMWT history. (Compare...Read More
If you weren’t watching this year’s Super Bowl, or if you weren’t watching the ads, you missed South Korean hip hop artist PSY doing his Gangnam Style dance with a bunch of life-sized Wonderful Pistachios, shilling for Paramount Farms. (If the dance moves look suggestive to you, well, where have you been? “Crack your nuts...Read More
