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When You Flush, You’re Drugging Salmon In Puget Sound

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Spawning salmon
US Bureau of Land Management

Bill Radke speaks with Joel Baker, science director of the Center for Urban Waters at the University of Washington Tacoma, about a recent study that shows a laundry list of ​pharmaceutical drugs are showing up in fish in Puget Sound.

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