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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 19 > Salmon boom and bust cycle tough to change, report finds

Salmon boom and bust cycle tough to change, report finds

Federal biologists cite climate change, reliance on hatchery fish in 2008 collapse

By Jeff Barnard / The Bulletin
March 19, 2009

GRANTS PASS — Federal fisheries biologists say the 2008 collapse of salmon returning to California’s Sacramento River was triggered primarily by climatic conditions that produced little food in the ocean, compounded by too much reliance on fish produced in hatcheries instead....

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