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The Hail Mary hatcheries
As wildfires, droughts, and floods deal a blow to coastal habitats, wild salmon are disappearing from waterways like California’s Russian River. Can conservation hatcheries save endangered runs?
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The US has spent more than $2B on a plan to save salmon. The fish are vanishing anyway
The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.
Cross-border Salish Sea study finds key puzzle pieces of wild salmon die-off
A massive cross-border research and conservation effort has yielded a potential roadmap to save wild salmon in the Salish Sea.
Saving salmon for the bears
The Wuikinuxv Nation is conducting research to figure out how much salmon to set aside to help the bears.
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Renegade biologist Alexandra Morton is fighting for the future of wild salmon
‘It's not a great measure of our democracy when occupying a fish farm is what you need to do to make change.’
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Genetically engineered salmon are growing in the Heartland
AquAdvantage Salmon are the first genetically modified animals approved for human consumption in the U.S.
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For every hundred salmon that go out to sea, 95 don't come back - the state of wild salmon in Ireland
Fishing organisations from across the North Atlantic have teamed up to declare 2019 the International Year of the Salmon as they hope to raise awareness about the decline in numbers.
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