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Klamath River

The collapse of the Chinook salmon run threatens a native tribe’s way of life

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The Yurok Tribe has lived along the Klamath River in Northern California for thousands of years, relying on the annual salmon run for food and revenue. But dams on the Klamath have created conditions for a deadly aquatic parasite that threatens to wipe out the vital Chinook salmon run.

Aging dam in Washington State a death trap for spawning fish

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Climate change threatens California’s stock of native fish

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Chinook Salmon Scarcity Marks Puget Sound Wake-Up Call

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THE SALMON WARS

Fish don’t seem to care about borders, but some people do when stocks are low. The United States and Canada have been fighting over quota claims to the sockeye, Chinook and coho salmon for nearly five decades. Keith Seinfeld reports from KPLU in Seattle about the latest breakdown in negotiations.

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Midwestern Salmon Adapt

Every year, Lake Michigan is stocked with thousands of farm-raised Chinook salmon where the fish are a favorite among sportfishermen Recently, some of these salmon have started to naturally reproduce in a most unlikely place. As Steve Frenkel of the Great Lakes Radio Consortium reports, they’ve found ideal spawning grounds in the wastewater of a […]

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Chilly Waters for Salmon

At 40 thousand dollars per salmon, the new 80 million dollar water project at the Shasta Dam in California will provide a chilled waterway to help restore the Chinook salmon which once thrived there in the days before the dam was built. William Drummond reports from northern California.

Sick Salmon

As climate change heats up rivers, fish like Alaskan King Salmon are getting infected with “ich,” a parasite that interferes with their run up the Yukon River to spawn.

Sacramento Salmon Crash

Less than a third of the King Salmon native to the Sacramento River in California made it home to spawn last spring, so fisheries managers are looking at canceling this year’s season.

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