A tractor trailer operated by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) on March 29 crashed near the town of La Grande. The trailer contained approximately 102,000 live salmon smolt. KOIN News reports that the driver suffered only minor injuries.
What about the baby salmon? About 26,000 of the fish, sadly, died. But the ODFW says trailer conveniently crashed next to and then flipped over into Lookingglass Creek, so approximately 77,000 survived and are now in the wild in a suitable habitat. Experts estimate that about 350-700 are likely to survive to adulthood to spawn in that creek and its watershed.
-via Kale Williams | Photo: ODFW
I am overjoyed for the fishies but any news on the driver. Is he/she okay.
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Oregon enough said.
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