At Hanford Reach, Nagler takes samples from the fins of Chinook salmon that recently spawned. Bill Loftus/Univ. of Idaho
Every year, rivers of chinook—the Pacific’s largest salmon—leave the ocean for an upstream trek into the streams of their birth. When these 4-to-6-year-olds reach home, they spawn and die.
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