Trump on conservation policies protecting the Delta smelt

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Trump on conservation policies protecting the Delta smelt

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Trump warns California will have to ration water because it dumps so much in the sea to help 'certain little tiny fish'
‘They have farms here and they don’t get water. It is so ridiculous they’re taking the water and shoving it out to sea’

Donald Trump returned to an old campaign attack line ridiculing Democrats for transporting “little tiny fish” from California’s deltas out to sea, as he claimed the state would soon “have to ration water”.

Speaking with Fox News’ host Sean Hannity, the US president suggested on Thursday that the Democrat-run state would have to ration water supplies because of policies protecting a small fish species known as delta smelt.

The small silvery-blue three-inch fish smell like cucumbers, and can only be found in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, where they are a protected species.

Mr Trump told The Sean Hannity Show that California’s conservation policies protecting the Delta smelt, whose numbers rapidly declined amid prolonged drought prior to the 2016 election, were responsible for the loss of water.

Full story and video: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 06951.html
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