"Truck Accident Spills 100,000 Live Salmon into Oregon Creek"

A tanker truck carrying over 100,000 live salmon from Oregon's Lookingglass Hatchery overturned, spilling most of the fish into a nearby creek, with the majority surviving and swimming away. Cleanup efforts were aided by local hatchery members, Nez Perce tribe members, and the Union County Sheriff's Office. While about 25,000 smolts did not survive, approximately 77,000 made it into Lookingglass Creek. The spill constituted 20 percent of the total fish count state hatcheries planned to release into the Imnaha River this year, impacting the hatchery's ability to supplement the threatened wild salmon population.