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Title: Large numbers of sockeye and chinook salmon have started to swim freely through
Post by: norm_2 on September 05, 2019, 06:57:51 AM

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/salmon-swimming-freely-through-fraser-river-landslide-site-officials-say/ar-AAGQKiy?ocid=mailsignout


Large numbers of sockeye and chinook salmon have started to swim freely through a section of the Fraser River that had been blocked by a landslide, officials announced Wednesday.

The incident management team said they have ceased helicopter transfers of fish after observing many of them negotiating the obstacles created by the landslide, north of Lillooet, B.C., unaided.

Decreasing water levels and rock scaling work are believed to have helped make a path for the salmon to continue migrating upstream.

Officials said they will now start monitoring pink salmon — which do not have the same size or swimming speed as other salmon species — to see if they will also be able to get past the slide.

Crews had conducted a successful trial run of transporting salmon upstream by truck earlier this week.

They said an estimated 28,780 salmon have passed the slide on their own, while nearly 57,000 have been transported by helicopter.

Title: Re: Large numbers of sockeye and chinook salmon have started to swim freely through
Post by: DragonSpeed on September 18, 2019, 08:28:11 AM

So a TOTAL of 80K fish have made it up the Fraser past that slide??? Yikes.

Title: Re: Large numbers of sockeye and chinook salmon have started to swim freely through
Post by: RalphH on September 22, 2019, 04:29:27 PM

closer 226,000 as of Friday:

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/public-safety-and-emergency-services/emergency-preparedness-response-recovery/embc/big-bar-landslide-2019/19_71w20ay_update_big_bar_landslide_incident_sept_20.pdf