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August 18, 2016

Chum salmon seem resistant to pollution

  • Researchers say coho exposed to stormwater from roadways died within 24 hours, but that toxic cocktail appears to have little affect on chum.
    • By TRISTAN BAURICK
    Kitsap Sun

    BREMERTON — Chum salmon appear to have a cockroach-like resistance to pollution.

    Scientists at Washington State University's stormwater research center in Puyallup recently made the surprising discovery that chum are unaffected by the same levels of toxic road runoff that quickly kills their coho cousins.


     
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