Thousands Of Salmon Spilled In Truck Accident Make It To Creek To Start New Lives
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Most of the smolts inside the "fish taxi" simply swam away after the Oregon crash — and the human driver was OK, too.
A 53-foot tanker truck carrying 102,000 Chinook salmon in Oregon skidded off the road and rolled over late last month, but it did so in one of the best possible places.
The vehicle hit a sharp corner and ultimately overturned on the bank of northeastern Oregon’s Lookingglass Creek on March 29. The truck driver experienced only minor injuries and was “safe” after the accident, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a Tuesday news release.
And about 77,000 of the young salmon, known as smolts, made it down the bank into the water and simply swam away.
“They hit the water running,” eastern Oregon fish hatchery coordinator Andrew Gibbs told The New York Times.
Not all of the fish were so lucky ― 25,529 of them died either inside the vehicle or on the bank, having not made it to the creek.
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