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Nature 431, 726 (14 October 2004) | doi:10.1038/431726b; Published online 13 October 2004

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Californians up in arms over water assessment

Emma Marris

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Concerns flood in over welfare of fish.

California legislators are demanding an inquiry into allegations that a local office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reversed the findings of its own biologists in assessing a water-management plan for the state.An early version of the plan, which Nature was shown, states that a strategy for managing the estuary around San Francisco Bay is "likely to jeopardize the continued existence" of two subspecies of fish, the Sacramento River winter-run chinook salmon and the Central Valley steelhead.