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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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The dams meet nearly 40% of today’s regional electricity needs. That hatchery, one of 23 facilities overseen by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, opened in 2013. The upper Columbia River spring Chinook and Snake River sockeye populations are listed as endangered under the 1973 Endangered Species Act.

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