Chinook Salmon

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Environmental Science
Wednesday, February 26, 1997
Chinook Salmon
Among the many kinds of fish harvested each year by commercial fisheries is the
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha or Chinook salmon. The United States catches an averages of about
three hundred million pounds of salmon each year. However some Chinook salmon have been
recently listed as threatened. Man has been the main cause for the decline in Chinook salmon
populations.
The populations of Chinook salmon have declined for several reasons. Hydropower and
it's destructiveness to the environment, pollution, and overfishing are…