Recovering Chum Salmon
- July 13, 2017
- John Harrison
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Chum salmon runs, once plentiful in the lower Columbia River, declined by about 99 percent over time but now are slowly rebuilding.
On July 19, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a memorandum opinion rejecting all arguments made by petitioner Northwest Resource Information Center (NRIC) against the Council's decision to approve the 2014 Columbia