So much so that, throughout the port towns of Italy, you can find fried smelt sold by street food vendors, served in a paper cone and punctured with a skewer for easy dipping. Once they've been ...

The delta smelt was bound for extinction years ago, but it's still a red flag signifying political ignorance on the right.

Probably the most controversial fish in this region, if not in California as a whole, is the Delta Smelt. The Delta smelt is the poster child of all that is wrong in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.