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Salmon Returning to San Joaquin River

Nov 29, 2012 at

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The San Joaquin River, California's second-longest, used to teem with Chinook salmon that traveled from the San Francisco Bay to the Fresno area to spawn. That was before the Friant Dam blocked their way, about 60 years ago. Now, biologists are reintroducing the fish.

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