Over a hundred different plants and animals species depend on salmon to live, most of those from the nutrients released after the salmon has spawned and died. Hatchery fish, which return mostly to hatcheries and are not allowed to spawn in rivers, are not contributors to ecosystem health to near the level of wild fish.
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