A food bank netted a huge haul of 13,000 fresh salmon. The catch? The fish were still alive

Donating Tons of Salmon - (Copyright The Associated Press 2025)

A New York food bank was offered a huge donation of fresh fish this month — but it came with a catch.

LocalCoho, a soon-to-close salmon farm in the small upstate city of Auburn, wanted to give 40,000 pounds (18,100 kilograms) of coho salmon to the Food Bank of Central New York, a mother lode of high-quality protein that could feed thousands of families.