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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

Thousands of young salmon survive Oregon truck crash by dropping into nearby creek

A spring chinook salmon
A spring chinook salmon reaches the end of the run at a hatchery in Oregon. Photograph: Brian Davies/AP

A creek in Oregon was inadvertently restocked with tens of thousands of young salmon when a tanker carrying the fish overturned and spilled its cargo.

State officials said more than 75% of the 102,000 Chinook salmon smolts that the tanker was transporting from a hatchery to the Imnaha river made it into Lookingglass Creek following the accident last Friday.

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