The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

- Aaron Penney
- Allyson Purcell
- Carson National Fish Hatchery
- Chief Joseph Hatchery
- Clearwater River
- Coeur d’Alene Tribe
- Columbia River
- CONFEDERATED TRIBES OF THE COLVILLE RESERVATION
- dams
- Environment
- Featured News
- Fisheries
- Jason Whalawitsa
- John Sirois
- Juneau
- Leavenworth Fish Hatchery
- Lisa Crozier
- Nation & World
- Nez Perce
- NOAA
- opb
- propublica
- salmon
- salmon hatchery
- steelhead trout
- Subsistence
- US Fish and Wildlife Service
- wild salmon
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.