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Salmon on the run

For a second year in a row, commercial salmon boats in California and Oregon will either retool for another fishery or travel north.

Post author By Nick Houtman
Post date April 15, 2009

For a second year in a row, commercial salmon boats in California and Oregon will either retool for another fishery or travel north. The cause: Regulators are protecting the paltry returns to the Sacramento River in order to rebuild those stocks. See Mark Floyd’s story in Terra about what OSU scientists and their partners are doing to sustain salmon in the Northwest.

Nick Houtman

By Nick Houtman

Nick Houtman is director of research communications at OSU and edits Terra, a world of research and creativity at Oregon State University. He has experience in weekly and daily print journalism and university science writing. A native Californian, he lived in Wisconsin and Maine before arriving in Corvallis in 2005.

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