Judie Brown
March 4, 2010
A serious drought in California's agricultural areas has sent fruit and vegetable prices soaring, but people probably don't know much else about the situation. Well, there's a bit of a fish story behind it.
The delta smelt fish, described by one reporter as "the canary in the coal mine," is a fish that resides at the bottom of the fish food chain. Due to environmentalists' concerns that if the delta smelt became extinct, other species that feed on it might also disappear, a court action was taken to protect the fish. http://www.the-signal.com/news/archive/13033/
The evolving story of this little fish goes like this:
March 4, 2010
A serious drought in California's agricultural areas has sent fruit and vegetable prices soaring, but people probably don't know much else about the situation. Well, there's a bit of a fish story behind it.
The delta smelt fish, described by one reporter as "the canary in the coal mine," is a fish that resides at the bottom of the fish food chain. Due to environmentalists' concerns that if the delta smelt became extinct, other species that feed on it might also disappear, a court action was taken to protect the fish. http://www.the-signal.com/news/archive/13033/
The evolving story of this little fish goes like this:
