Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'English · 3 months ago

Oregon truck crash releases 77,000 salmon into wrong body of water

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Oregon truck crash releases 77,000 salmon into wrong body of water

Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'English · 3 months ago

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Oregon truck crash releases 77,000 salmon into wrong body of water - UPI.com

Officials attempting to repopulate a river with salmon hit a setback when a truck crash released 77,000 of the fish into the wrong body of water.

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Depending where the water goes, a truckload of dead fish isn’t the greatest for an ecosystem either.

Still better than bleach or something, but possibly not great.
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  The 77,000 number appears to be referring to those that made it into the creek alive. The original total on the truck was 102,000

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