Four environmental and fishing organizations have sued the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, alleging the agency failed to meet a deadline for a report that would help determine whether the white sturgeon fish in San Francisco Bay should be added to a state list of threatened or endangered species.

San Francisco Baykeeper, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, Restore the Delta, and Friends of the River filed the petition in Alameda County Superior Court on Monday. These nonprofits are united around the preservation of California’s rivers and streams, with emphasis on keeping the waters of the San Francisco Bay-Delta fishable, swimmable and drinkable.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.