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John Sirois of the Colville Tribes looks over an area where salmon swam before the Chief Joseph Dam was built. Fish have been released here ceremonially, but the dam blocks them from reaching the ocean, where salmon finish maturing, so the fish released here cannot rebuild the river’s population.

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