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Should you feel guilty for eating Chinook salmon?

caption: J-50 alongside her mother, J-16, with salmon.
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J-50 alongside her mother, J-16, with salmon.
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Bill Radke talks to Barton Seaver, Riley Starks and Lisa Wilson about the starving orca population in the Puget Sound and whether or not humans should stop eating Chinook salmon.

Should you eat Chinook salmon? We talk about the possible consequences.

Should you eat Chinook salmon? September 19th 2018

If you love the orcas, should you eat Chinook salmon? The answer isn’t a neat one. We asked seafood chef Barton Seaver, commercial fisher Riley Starks, and Lisa Wilson, Endangered Species Act Manager for the Lummi Nation.

Bill Radke was joined by Barton Seaver, chef and author of "American Seafood," Riley Starks, owner of Nettles Farm on Lummi Island, and Lisa Wilson, Endangered Species Act manager for the Lummi Nation.

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