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Fish out of water story ends with 77,000 young salmon in the wrong water

The Chinook got shook when their truck got cooked. Now the salmon are swimming — but in the wrong brook.
Thousands of young salmon died after the truck crash, unable to reach nearby Lookingglass Creek in northeast Oregon.

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 only minor injuries. And as the truck came to a rest, its tank settled downhill, next to

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