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Fishing Ban Considered as Salmon Dwindle

By Tamara Keith

Published March 14, 2008 at 10:00 AM PDT

This story was published more than 16 years ago.

U.S. officials are on the brink of forbidding salmon fishing along the West Coast because of a major collapse in the salmon population. Marine experts say they are witnessing the worst crisis in the salmon population in at least 40 years.

Keith reports for member station KQED in Northern California.

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Tamara Keith

Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. In that time, she has chronicled the final years of the Obama administration, covered Hillary Clinton's failed bid for president from start to finish and thrown herself into documenting the Trump administration, from policy made by tweet to the president's COVID diagnosis and the insurrection. In the final year of the Trump administration and the first year of the Biden administration, she focused her reporting on the White House response to the COVID-19 pandemic, breaking news about global vaccine sharing and plans for distribution of vaccines to children under 12.