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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 25 > Columbia sockeye return near record

Columbia sockeye return near record

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
July 25, 2008

PORTLAND — Sockeye salmon are heading back up the Columbia River this summer in numbers unseen since 1955, and nobody is sure why.

Some credit a federal court order releasing extra water over dams in 2006 and 2007 to ease the young salmons’ passage to the sea, The Oregonian....

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