OPINION: Trump Administration's Salmon Funding Cut Threatens Decades of Progress
The Trump administration has abruptly eliminated $1.3 million in federal funding for Washington's Regional Fisheries Enhancement Groups, jeopardizing salmon restoration across the state. The administration should reverse course.
The 14 community-based RFEGs have been a linchpin in the fight to save salmon for three decades. Bringing together volunteers, Native American tribes and experts, they have removed barriers to fish passage, reopened more than 1,500 miles of stream, restored habitat and released hatchery salmon into state waterways. Their efforts have led to healthier and more abundant salmon, but work...
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