The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion On A Plan To Save Salmon

The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion On A Plan To Save Salmon

By Tony Schick and Irena Hwang

Source: ProPublica

5/25/2022

Credit: Shutterstock

The fish were on their way to be executed. One minute, they were swimming around a concrete pond. The next, they were being dumped onto a stainless steel table set on an incline. Hook-nosed and wide-eyed, they thrashed and thumped their way down the table toward an air-powered guillotine.

Hoses hanging from steel girders flushed blood through the grated metal floor. Hatchery workers in splattered chest waders gutted globs of bright orange eggs from the dead females and dropped them into buckets, then doused them first with a stream of sperm taken from the dead males and then with an iodine disinfectant.

Columbia River

Salmon, Chinook

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