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Podcast: American Shoreline Podcast Network
Episode: Glen Spain on Intricacies and Importance of Salmon Conservation: Part 1 | Changing Waters
Description: Damming the Columbia River may have electrified the Pacific Northwest, but it also turned the worlds greatest salmon producing river into a series of sun-heated slackwater pools—hot enough to kill salmon at both ends of their epic migration. Glen Spain, a veteran leader of West Coast fishermen’s efforts to protect their  livelihood from environmental harm, updates us on recent progress in the decades-long struggle to force improvements in dam operations and give the fish a beter chance.
Glen Spain is the Northwest Regional Director and Salmon Protection Program Director for Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Assoc...