[env-trinity] Congressional Hearing Monday in Stockton

[Byron]

Congressional panel sets hearing on Delta

Sacramento Bee - 2/24/06

By Matt Weiser, staff writer

 

SACRAMENTO - A congressional committee will hold a field hearing Monday to
discuss problems in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region. 

 

The House Resources Committee, chaired by Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, will
begin the 8 a.m. hearing at the Port of Stockton, 315 Fyffe Ave. 

 

For more than a year, a team of state and federal scientists has struggled
to understand dramatic declines in several Delta fish species, including the
striped bass, an important game fish, and the threatened Delta smelt. Their
$2 million research effort last year stopped short of assigning blame. But
it found that water exports and hostile conditions in Suisun Bay, an
important fish-rearing area, may be key contributing factors. 

 

More research is being conducted in hopes of pinpointing a specific cause. 

 

The Delta also suffers from a host of other problems, including poor water
quality and invasive species. 

 

Next month, the state Fish and Game Commission is likely to adopt new Delta
fishing limits for sturgeon, which have been targeted by caviar poachers. 

 

Monday's hearing will include testimony by seven biologists and water
quality experts from state and federal agencies.

 

 

Byron Leydecker

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

Advisor, California Trout, Inc

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 ph

415 383 9562 fx

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org

http://www.fotr.org

http:www.caltrout.org 

 

 

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