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Skagit River delta information

Detailed Description

Channelization and diking of river deltas like that of the Skagit River, Puget Sound, disrupts sediment transport, which fragments eelgrass beds, reduces habitat availability for forage fish, including herring, and erodes tidal marshes, all important to salmon recovery.

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