| Delta Smelt Culture Facility - The University of California, Davis, and the State, working
with federal agencies, operate a Delta smelt culture laboratory located at the Department
of Water Resources Banks Pumping Plant in the Delta. UC Davis rears and provides over 20,000
juvenile and adult fish annually to researchers carrying out elements of the POD
investigation and evaluating ways to improve the performance of existing and new fish
screening facilities. These research fish are the progeny of wild fish collected in the
Delta in 2006, and with the curtailment of the collection of wild fish due to the
declining population they are now the only source of live research fish. Research is also
carried out at the UC Davis fish culture facility into the physical and biological
requirements of delta smelt. |
Dr. Lindsay Sullivan studies feeding habits of the Delta Smelt. |
Dr. Lindsay Sullivan studies feeding habits of the Delta Smelt. |
Fertilized Delta Smelt eggs. |
Counting Delta Smelt eggs, one inch in the tube means 1000 eggs. |
Counting Delta Smelt eggs, one inch in the tube means 1000 eggs. |
Counting Delta Smelt eggs, one inch in the tube means 1000 eggs. |
Fertilized Delta Smelt eggs. |
Counting Delta Smelt eggs, one inch in the tube means 1000 eggs. |
Incubating Delta Smelt eggs that are held in suspension over a sand filter by flowing water. When the smelt hatches it is carried up the water column and flows into a nursery tank. |
Incubating Delta Smelt eggs that are held in suspension over a sand filter by flowing water. When the smelt hatches it is carried up the water column and flows into a nursery tank. |
Delta Smelt rearing tanks. |
Constant monitoring and temperature control allows raising the smelt in captivity. |
Automatic vibrating fish feeder over the tanks. |
Delta Smelt rearing tanks. |
Juvenile Delta Smelt rearing tanks. |
Juvenile Delta Smelt rearing tanks. |
Tanks for rearing Delta Smelt and their food. |
Delta Smelt Refuge facility. |
Delta Smelt Refuge facility with tanks for genetically diverse smelt populations. |
Adult Delta Smelt |
Adult Delta Smelt |
Adult Delta Smelt |
Adult Delta Smelt |
Adult Delta Smelt in net. |
Tank for photographing fish. |
Measuring adult Delta Smelt. |
Adult Delta Smelt |
Adult Delta Smelt being artificially spawned, female with eggs. |
Adult Delta Smelt |
Adult Delta Smelt being artificially spawned, male with milt. |
Adult Delta Smelt |
Vile holding fin clip samples used for genetic testing |
Juvenile Delta Smelt |
Juvenile Delta Smelt |
Juvenile Delta Smelt |
Juvenile Delta Smelt |
Juvenile Delta Smelt |
Juvenile Delta Smelt |
Juvenile Delta Smelt |
Aerial of Delta Smelt breeding and study facility. |
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