4.Local landowners, whose right to draw water was thus curtailed, appealed against the consequences of this protection all the way to the Supreme Court, but in 1976 they lost and the pupfish survived.
汲水权益因这一保护行动受损的当地土地拥有者一路上诉到最高法院,却于1976年败诉,魔鬼洞鳉得以幸存。