This Billion-Dollar Plan to Save Salmon Depends on a Giant Fish Vacuum

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Many endorse opening dams and letting fish coast the natural current as the best way to avoid extinction. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has other ideas.

https://www.propublica.org/article/willamette-river-salmon-dams-usace?

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The Fight of the Salmon People

April 2022, early spring Chinook season

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-fight-of-the-salmon-people?

The U.S. Promised Tribes They Would Always Have Fish, but the Fish They Have Pose Toxic Risks

For decades, the U.S. government has failed to test for chemicals and metals in fish. So, we did. What we found was alarming for tribes.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-us-broke-promise-to-protect-fish-for-tribes?

The Racism, and Resilience, Behind Today’s Salmon Crisis

Salmon have been endangered my entire life. Here’s what I didn’t realize until I started reporting.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-racism-and-resilience-behind-todays-salmon-crisis?

The Federal Government Is Finally Increasing Funding for Salmon Hatcheries. Tribes Say It’s Not Enough.

Columbia River salmon hatcheries need billions of dollars’ worth of upgrades to withstand climate change. They’re getting $50 million.

https://www.propublica.org/article/columbia-river-salmon-hatcheries-get-more-funding-tribes-say-not-enough?

The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion 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.

https://www.propublica.org/article/salmon-hatcheries-government-climate-change?