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Smithsonian Magazine article about threats to the population of this fish. Last September on Newfoundlands Humber River, writer Michael Parfit set out in search of the king of sportfish, the Atlantic salmon. With a historical domain stretching from the Connecticut River all the way to Portugal, Atlantic salmon were the monarchs of the sea—so numerous they were once used as fertilizer. But pollution and heavy commercial fishing in the 20th century took their toll. Salmon enjoyed a brief rebound after buyouts of commercial fisheries and the introduction of aquaculture. But in the 1990s, numbers of Atlantic salmon returning to their home rivers drastically declined, and no one knows why.

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