California has no health standards for these chemicals in fish, so activists are urging action. Found in people and animals worldwide, they are linked to cancer and other health effects.

The resolution aims to remove the endangered species status of longfin smelt in San Francisco Bay. The fish received that designation in July under the Biden administration. Rep. Doug LaMalfa ...

SAN FRANCISCO – In the classic film “The Birds,’’ flocks of crows and other species suddenly and viciously attack people for no apparent reason. Now another Bay Area-based mystery has ...

The longfin smelt, a fish the length of a popsicle stick that once fed hundreds of San Francisco Bay animals including humans, was just added to a growing list of endangered species. The federal ...

House Republicans vote to repeal a decision that placed a California fish, longfin smelt, on the endangered species list. Democrats and environmentalists condemned the action.

The study confirmed roughly 20 different variations of PFAS, which can come from plastics and other manufactured materials, in about 10 different species of fish gathered from throughout the Bay Area.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to designate 91,630 acres of critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the critically imperiled San Francisco Bay population of longfin smelt. The formerly abundant native ...

Longfin smelt are the sixth fish species in the bay estuary to be ... and alterations in freshwater flow into the San Francisco Bay estuary.” Paul Souza, the agency’s regional director ...