Unintended release of Chinook into a river in Oregon, due to a traffic accident. (minor injuries to the driver, and not all the Chinook made it into the river... but the ones that did should survive).
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife: "On March 29 near Lookingglass Hatchery in northeast Oregon, a fish tanker truck was involved in an accident while transporting approximately 102,000 spring Chinook smolts for release in the Imnaha River.... The accident occurred alongside Lookingglass Creek, a tributary of the Grande Ronde River. About 77,000 smolts made it into the creek when the tanker overturned"
Most of the Delta lacks standards for how much water should flow through it, and that's a big problem.
"The fish are suffering primarily from a lack of adequate freshwater,” says Baykeeper science director Jon Rosenfield. "Flow is sort of the master variable that affects almost everything with fish."
Check out this transcription effort! Audio taken from wax cylinders made in the 1940's to capture the language of old "Chinookan" but what he recorded was actually Chinook Jargon/Chinuk Wawa. Joe Peter is the Indigenous man that was providing the translation to Chinook/Chinuk.
@ProPublica TO bad they wont recognize the Chinook Nation and its people. The same people that saved the asses of Lewis and Clarke and the same people the helicopter is named for.
YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1826:
"All the Indians as usual followed us with the Constant Cry of Cynol or Tobacco. Got above the Big Dalles by 1 pm & arrived at the little Dalles and passed them by 2 and at 3 arrived at the Chutes where met with a greater Concourse of of Indians than I ever saw here. They volunteered to Carry the Boats which I permitted as I did not wish to encamp here for fear they might inure the Cattle. After we got everything... #AmWritingHistory#HistoricJourney#Books
For thousands of years, the Klamath River has been a cornerstone of #Yurok culture, providing its people with a bounty of #chinook salmon, #coho salmon & #steelhead trout.
Here's a recording of the extremely low-flying #Chinook that passed over our house yesterday evening at approximately 19:44 GMT+1. It flew so low that it actually clipped my #microphones. #London#Kilburn