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Article: IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR STUDIES RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PACIFIC SALMON, NEZ PERCE CULTURE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 15, 2006
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Idaho State University issued the following news release:
Pacific salmon and steelhead are "keystone" ecological wildlife species to the Pacific Northwest, where, according to the Washington Department of Natural Resources, more than 130 wildlife species depend on Pacific salmon for part of their diet. And that doesn't count all the plants and microorganisms that depend on nutrients the return of salmon to waterways provides.
Pacific salmon can be considered a keystone species in other ways, such as how vital they are to the regional economy of Northwest commercial salmon fishing or to the local economy of a town like Riggins, Idaho, where sportfishing brings in tourists' dollars.
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