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Dams on the West Coast

NOAA Fisheries’ conserves, protects, and enhances populations of Pacific salmon and steelhead and their habitats that are affected by hydroelectric, water storage, and diversion dams, as well as other marine species in coastal areas affected by hydrokinetic projects.

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