Biological Opinion for Delta smelt is sound and credible.

The Environmental Defense Fund says an independent review of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's  Biological Opinion (BO) for Delta smelt has concluded that the scientific underpinning of the BO is sound and credible. The review was requested by the Family Farm Alliance through the Information Quality Act, and was completed in October by a panel of five independent scientists. This is the same Biological Opinion that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, at the prodding of her social friend and major contributor Stewart Resnick, a Beverly Hills billionaire and mega-"farmer" in the San Joaquin Valley, wants to be reviewed yet again.

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 It presents the panel’s responses to questions posed by FFA on the validity of the science of the BO’s Effects Analysis.

This recent independent review of the USFWS Biological Opinion (BO) for Delta smelt is worth a read. The study seems largely to have been released under the radar, and we only just became aware of it.

In general, the panel concluded that the science underpinning the BO is sound and credible. The review, requested by the Family Farm Alliance through the Information Quality Act, was completed in October by a panel of five independent scientists. It presents the panel’s responses to questions posed by FFA on the validity of the science of the BO’s Effects Analysis.