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Truck crash spills live salmon into wrong Oregon river 
By Max Matza CA Source: BBC News 4/3/2024
Max Matza
Credit: ODFW
A truck carrying 102,000 live salmon in the US state of Oregon crashed last week on a creek bed, inadvertently releasing thousands of the juvenile fish into the water.

The young Chinook, also known as King, salmon were being taken from the Lookingglass Hatchery in the state's north, to the Imnaha River, where they are listed as threatened.
 

But the crash caused some 77,000 fish to splash into the Lookingglass Creek, boosting the population of that waterway instead.

 
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