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Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce.

Charles Clover

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Charles Clover
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 13
Athletics Competitor
Javelin Thrower
Ipswich (parish)
Charles Phillip Clover
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