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Updated: June 30, 2010


Oregon salmon rated as 'avoid' on Monterey Bay Aquarium's seafood watch guide

Scott Learn, The Oregonian

The Monterey Bay Aquarium's popular "Seafood Watch" guide is advising shoppers and commercial fish buyers to avoid wild-caught salmon from Oregon and California, saying the population of salmon that originates in the Sacramento River and migrates into Oregon waters is too depleted to eat.

The change to the sustainable seafood guide, announced last week, tosses a stink bomb in the middle of the first commercial salmon fishing season off most of Oregon's coast in three years.

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