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Science 6 February 1998:
Vol. 279. no. 5352, p. 800
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5352.800
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WILDLIFE BIOLOGY:
Atlantic Salmon Spawn Fight Over Species Protection

David Malakoff

CHERRYFIELD, MAINE--This year's sparse count of redds, the bowl-shaped gravel nests in which Atlantic salmon lay eggs, is providing grave new evidence of another dismal breeding season here for wild salmon, which once thrived half a million strong in rivers north of the Hudson. But because Atlantic salmon remain abundant in Canada and Europe, the U.S. government won't be stepping in to save them. The decision not to use the Endangered Species Act to protect seven of the nation's last native Atlantic salmon runs has rekindled a fierce debate over which animal populations are worth saving.

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