Why wasn't someone on top of this years ago? I don't have an answer to that. The step decline ... got people's attention. That made it possible to start looking at this in great detail.

This gives us a range of things we could do. Some of that is pretty big dollar amounts. The next step will be ... how do we choose among those options and how do we pay for it?

Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin - their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.

The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest.

Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin — their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.

There's a lot of people's jobs and lives and economic well-being depending on moving water through the delta in an ecologically sound manner. It's hard to imagine a more important issue.