The Rogue River estuary is filling up, and not with water

nees wet to demonstrate how shallow our estuary has become. Decades of changes to the river such as damming, poorly designed and regulated gravel harvesting, and filling for commercial development have left our estuary shallow, warm, and increasingly poorer habitat for fish. Both commercial and sport harvest of salmon provides a significant portion of the local economies of South Coast communities, and every salmon in the entire Rogue River drainage must pass through the estuary twice ....

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