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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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Scientific provisions in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee bill is largely similar to the House bill: The Fish and Wildlife Service receives $200 million for Endangered Species Act recovery plans and $9.7 This bill allows fishermen to exchange lionfish tails for fishing tags for other species.

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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

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Allyson Purcell is the director of West Coast hatcheries for NOAA, which oversees endangered salmon recovery, sets regulations for hatcheries and funds roughly a third of all Columbia River hatchery production. Only a portion of the salmon released each year are tagged. This estimate of ocean survival has some caveats.

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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

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Biden administration proposed repealing Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have expressed concerns over the total price tag of the budget reconciliation bill. . The Biden administration seeks to replace the Trump regulations.

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