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Canada crime probe sought in salmon deaths

By Mark Hume
Toronto Globe and Mail — April 19, 2006

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A criminal investigation is being urged into a gravel-mining operation on the Fraser River that, according to a study by the British Columbia Institute of Technology, killed about 2 million young pink salmon this spring. The salmon had just hatched and were hiding in the gravel near their spawning beds when a contractor working with the Cheam native band built a causeway across a side channel, cutting off water flow, leaving several hectares of river bottom h ...

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