Research published in peer-reviewed journals by staff from the Lodi and San Francisco Bay-Delta offices of the Fish and Wildlife Service in collaboration with their partners can be accessed below. For additional information or data on Delta smelt or longfin smelt, please email brandon_honig@fws.gov or tamara_ward@fws.gov or call 916-930-2657.
Re-Examining Factors That Affect Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) Entrainment at the State Water Project and Central Valley Project in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, published in March 2021
Disentangling risks to an endangered fish: using a state-space life cycle model to separate natural mortality from anthropogenic losses, February 2021
Characterization of Spawning Behavior in Cultured Delta Smelt, January 2021
Did a Shifting Ecological Baseline Mask the Predatory Effect of Striped Bass on Delta Smelt? March 2020
Integration of Transport, Survival, and Sampling Efficiency in a Model of South Delta Entrainment, December 2019
Estimating the Size Selectivity of Fishing Trawls for a Short-Lived Fish Species, March 2019
A Covered Cod-End and Tow-Path Evaluation of Midwater Trawl Gear Efficiency for Catching Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus), December 2017
The role of tidal marsh restoration in fish management in the San Francisco Estuary, March 2014
Common predator, rare prey: exploring juvenile striped bass predation on delta smelt in California’s San Francisco Estuary, November 2013
The spawning migration of delta smelt in the upper San Francisco Estuary, July 2011
Modeling the effects of future outflow on the abiotic habitat of an imperiled estuarine fish, September 2010