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
But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Hatcheries like the Carson National Fish Hatchery, pictured here, breed millions of salmon and let them grow until they are mature enough to be released so they can try to swim to the ocean. The hatcheries were supposed to stop the decline of salmon.
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