The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.
Circle of Blue
JUNE 1, 2022
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. Seen here in a photo from 1922, the station was named after NOAA Fisheries founder Spencer Baird, an early champion of hatcheries.
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