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Title page 355
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
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Description Causes for Depletion of Runs The extent of depletion in Columbia River salmon runs cannot be determined because of inadequate data. The decline in the total number of fish entering the river, however, is believed to be substantially greater than the decline in Columbia River catch. The latter decline, as indicated in a preceding table, was from an annual average of 41,000,000 pounds of all species for the 5-year period of 1916-20, to less than 25,000,000 pounds for the period 1936-40. Two...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1806

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