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    <th width="77%" valign="bottom"><h1 align="left">Are Our Aquatic Ecosystems Healthy?</h1></th>
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<p class="blueSubtitle"><em>California has many types of aquatic habitats.  Follow the links below to learn more...</em></p>
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    <a href="eo_estuaries_aquatic_life.shtml"><img src="../../../images/performance_report/ecosystems/coastal.jpg" alt="Coastal Bays and Estuaries" width="144" height="64" /></a></td>
    <td valign="top"><h2>COASTAL</h2>
    <p><a href="eo_estuaries_aquatic_life.shtml">California's coastal waters, estuaries, and bays</a> link the land and sea as well as freshwater and salt water environments. They provide habitat for fish, birds, and wildlife and support commercial and recreational activities. This measure shows the health of California's coastal waters as measured by contamination in sediments.</p></td>
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    <a href="eo_psa_aquatic_life.shtml"><img src="../../../images/performance_report/ecosystems/streams_144x64.jpg" alt="Wadeable Perennial Streams" width="144" height="64" /></a></td>
    <td><h2>STREAMS</h2>
        <p>California has about 55,000 kilometers of <a href="eo_psa_aquatic_life.shtml">wadeable perennial (flowing year-round) streams</a> that provide habitat and spawning grounds for fish, birds, and wildlife. The health of the state's streams was measured by assessing the numbers and types of organisms that live in them.</p></td>
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      <a href="eo_wetlands_aquatic_life.shtml"><img src="../../../images/performance_report/ecosystems/wetlands.jpg" alt="Perennial Estuarine Wetlands" width="144" height="64" /></a></td>
    <td><h2>WETLANDS</h2>
        <p><a href="eo_wetlands_aquatic_life.shtml">Wetlands</a> support unique and diverse communities of plants and animals and provide floodwater storage and recreational opportunities for humans. This measure shows how much estuarine wetland exists in California and the health of those wetlands.</p></td>
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    <td valign="top"><h2>LAKES</h2>
        <p>Many of California's over 9,000 <a href="eo_lakes_fishable.shtml">lakes</a> are popular sport fishing locations. This measure summarizes a survey of contaminants in sport fish from more than 200 of the most popular fishing lakes.</p></td>
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