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Carl Safina with Nisqually tribal leader, Billy Frank
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Male pink salmon on spawning grounds of the Mashel River, a tributary to the Nisqually River
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Carl Safina about to join a river survey of young salmon, points to a miniature video camera that will show his point of view
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A survey team caught this juvenile chinook salmon in Puget Sound shortly after it left the Nisqually River on its way to the ocean
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Female pink salmon on Carl Safina’s fishing line in Puget Sound
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A spawning pair of pink salmon in the Mashel River
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Adult female chinook salmon on spawning grounds in the Mashel River
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A GoPro miniature underwater camera is recording on the end of the pole, as a chinook salmon approaches from the left
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Salmon were mercilessly overfished in the early 20th century. Here men unload salmon into huge bins on a dock at the Seattle waterfront, ca 1900. Washington State Historical Society
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Chinook salmon weighing 76 pounds ca1913. Large salmon were much more common then. Washington State Historical Society
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Members of the Nisqually Tribe harvest chinook salmon returning to the river
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Sometimes seals take a free meal out of the salmon nets. Seals especially like salmon eggs