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Oregon man charged after allegedly using bleach to kill 18,000 juvenile salmon at Reedsport hatchery
A 20-year-old Gardiner man has been arrested and charged in the deliberate killing of 18,000 young salmon at a Reedsport hatchery.
Oregon kills thousands of hatchery rainbow trout after discovering parasite
Climate change and warmer rivers may have allowed the pathogen to thrive.
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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.
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NOAA Finalizes New Plan For Columbia River Hatcheries
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a final plan Tuesday for producing hatchery fish while protecting wild fish in the Columbia River Basin.
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Wild Fish Group Sues Over Impacts Of Northwest Hatcheries
The Wild Fish Conservancy's lawsuit accuses the government of failing to adequately protect wild fish from the impacts of Columbia River Basin hatcheries.