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The fish are one of the points of a "report" being sent out to anti-Bush (pro-abortion, pro-any-thing-but-abstinence groups:

http://www.arhp.org/signon/science.cfm

"Preserving the Core Values I Science"

""Evidence-based, peer-reviewed science has served as a respected "gold standard" for policy-making. As the examples below indicate, it increasingly appears that, under the current administration, ideology and not science is driving what ought to be objective, scientific processes.

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Biologist ordered to rewrite his scientific opinion on water needs of endangered salmon

Michael Kelly, a biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service, led the team changed with protecting endangered coho salmon in California and Oregon's Klamath River. Regional water managers must balance the water needs of the federally protected salmon with those of local farmers. This past spring, Kelly's team reviewed the ten-year plan put forth by the water's managers-the Bureau of Reclamation-and concluded that the plan did not provide enough water for the fish. The Justice Department ordered Kelly to revise his conclusions. His second report reached the same conclusion, with additional scientific and legal analysis. The Bureau of Reclamation rejected his report and backed an alternative plan that diverted more water for agriculture. Later in the summer, with low water flows, more than 30,000 fish, or one-quarter of that year's run, died. ""

Hey! Didn't you see all the phony stories trying to glorify this guy as some kind of legitimate "whistle blower?" Every time you check these stories out, one finds that the story was supplied to the media by some insatiable EnvironMental group and the media people were too lazy to check out the efficacy of the story, much less do their own legwork!!!