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Several of the populations Cooke studies, including those in the Fraser River, have crashed to the point that even taking a small number of fish for research would be more than they can afford to lose. \u201cWe\u2019re at the point with some populations where we have to be hands off,\u201d says Cooke. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to study them to extinction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through years of precipitous declines, Cooke has found it increasingly difficult to study the fish in their native habitat. Now, he\u2019s been all but forced to shift his team\u2019s focus thousands of kilometers east, to Ontario\u2019s Great Lakes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hakaimagazine.com\/news\/scientists-are-running-out-of-salmon-to-study\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Steven Cooke, a biologist at Carleton University in Ottawa, has been traveling to British Columbia to research Pacific salmon migrations. 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