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No surprise: Salmon most expensive endangered species
By Matthew Preusch, The Oregonian
October 14, 2009
Scientific American has the story on a federal report tallying the costs of recovering wildlife listed as threatened and endangered.
And salmon species are by far the most expensive.
Chinook, or king, salmon received more than $165 million, while chum, coho and sockeye netted another $78 million in total spending for 2007, Scientific American said.
The total spent in 2007 by federal and state governments on conservation and habitat protection was more than $1.6 billion.
Last month, The Oregonian reported that the total spent on the 13 salmon and steelhead species in the Columbia Basin since 1978 exceeds $12 billion.
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