Science & Environment

The US has spent more than $2B on a plan to save salmon. The fish are vanishing anyway.

By Tony Schick (OPB) and Irena Hwang (ProPublica)
Carson, Wash. May 24, 2022 12 p.m. Updated: May 24, 2022 1 p.m.

The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.

Tags: Science & Environment, Salmon, Hatcheries, Columbia River, Tribes, Broken Promises