When a truck carrying over 100,000 salmon crashed and overturned in Oregon, it might have spelled disaster for the fish aboard, which were intended to replenish local populations in the Imnaha River.

A tanker truck overturned in Northeast Oregon on Friday and spilled over 100,000 live salmon — most of which landed in a nearby creek and lived to swim another day, officials said. The 53-foot truck ...

The 53-foot truck rolled down an embankment toward Lookingglass Creek. Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Some 102,000 spring Chinook salmon smolts destined for the Imnaha ...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife First, the good news. When a 53-foot fish tanker truck crashed and rolled upside down on an embankment next to a creek in northeast Oregon, its driver suffered ...

Fortunately, the driver suffered only minor injuries when a tanker truck of salmon rolled onto its roof in Oregon. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Tens of thousands of baby salmon lived to see ...

On a recent morning in March, while dew was still on the road, there occurred the salmon smolt mishap of northeast Oregon. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said on Tuesday that one of its ...

A truck that was transporting 102,000 spring Chinook salmon to the Imnaha River in northeastern Oregon crashed in a road bend, spilling most of its cargo into a nearby creek. When you purchase through ...

LA GRANDE, Ore. (Gray News) - Thousands of young salmon were dumped into the wrong creek after the tanker transporting them was involved in a crash. According to the Oregon Department of Fish and ...

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A tanker truck carrying about 102,000 spring chinook salmon smolts crashed near the Lookingglass Hatchery, about 20 miles north of Elgin, on March 29. The driver, who works for the Oregon Department ...