A truck carrying tens of thousands of baby salmon crashed on its way to a river in Oregon, but up to 77,000 salmon managed to survive by jumping into a nearby creek.
The accident happened after the 53-foot-long (16 meters) vehicle transporting the fish overturned on a sharp corner and went over a rocky embankment on March 29, according to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW). The tanker truck was en route to the Imnaha River to release its cargo of 102,000 spring Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), when it skidded off the road alongside a tributary of the Grande Ronde River known as Lookingglass Creek, in northeastern Oregon. The driver received only minor injuries, wildlife officials said in a statement.
