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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Oregon |
 | | Reckless overfishing threatened to exhaust the supply and to imperil the industry, until the state regulated it by law and provided for it by hatcheries. |
| | The state through its department of fisheries operates at the annual expense of $50,000 ten salmon hatcheries, from which nearly 70,000,000 young salmon are liberated annually. |
| | Thus the Columbia River is made to produce year after year practically the same supply of salmon. |
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