California water contractors want to blame the striped bass for the decline of delta smelt, steelhead, king salmon and other fish in the California Delta in order to divert blame from the state and federal export pumps, even though the striped bass successfully coexisted with native species for over 125 years. Via: Sacramento for Democracy LINK

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has killed about 10 double-crested
cormorants and plans to kill about 30 more on the Lower Snake River as
part of a study to see whether the burgeoning population of the
fish-eating birds is hindering attempts to bolster threatened and
endangered runs of salmon and steelhead. Via: The Seattle PI  LINK