The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.
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JUNE 1, 2022
The numbers of each of the six salmon species native to the Columbia basin have dropped to a fraction of what they once were, and 13 distinct populations are now considered threatened or endangered. Many species of salmon are at or near their lowest numbers on record. The hatcheries were supposed to stop the decline of salmon.
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