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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. In the early 1990s, several salmon populations landed on the endangered species list. Tagged fish can be detected by special technology, often at dams, and tag data can provide a window into fish migration and survival. But they decimated wild salmon.

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