Protection Denied for Another Salmon Species
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<i> Associated Press</i>
WASHINGTON — Government fish experts decided Friday against adding another Northwest salmon species to the U.S. list of threatened fish, finding that it is not a distinct population eligible for federal protection.
The mid-Columbia River summer chinook salmon’s numbers are declining, but it is not faced with extinction, officials for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said.
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