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Disaster struck a truck transporting 102,000 young salmon to a hatchery in Oregon when it overturned on the road and the giant fish tank it was carrying burst open.
However luck was on the side of the small fries, almost all of whom rode the wave of water out of the tank and into Lookingglass Creek, the waterway which connects with the hatchery they were traveling to.
The driver had just left a local hatchery in Elgin, Oregon, about 300 miles east of Portland with 80,000 pounds of salmon and water. His eventual destination was the Imnaha River near Lookingglass Hatchery in Northeast Oregon, but with early morning dew on the roads, the driver skidded while heading around a sharp curve and the yaw of the water-filled container brought it down onto its side before sending it sliding over the road and down into a rocky embankment.
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However luck was on the side of the small fries, almost all of whom rode the wave of water out of the tank and into Lookingglass Creek, the waterway which connects with the hatchery they were traveling to.
The driver had just left a local hatchery in Elgin, Oregon, about 300 miles east of Portland with 80,000 pounds of salmon and water. His eventual destination was the Imnaha River near Lookingglass Hatchery in Northeast Oregon, but with early morning dew on the roads, the driver skidded while heading around a sharp curve and the yaw of the water-filled container brought it down onto its side before sending it sliding over the road and down into a rocky embankment.
Continued below.
100,000 Salmon Spill Off a Truck in Oregon–and Most Land in a Creek and Survive
The program started in 1982 bringing young salmon from river hatcheries downstream to hatcheries stopped up by dams far upstream.
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