When Wilma Alcock was young, she fished all the time on the Willamette River, eating the bluegills, perch and crappie she and her family caught.

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“It got to the point where we couldn’t eat the fish because it was so toxic and dangerous,” the now-80-year-old recalls. “That is something that has been taken from people that loved to fish that area.”