Experts Assess Damage to Fish from Fuel Tanker Crash in Salmon Stream
ELWHA RIVER — Matt Beirne reached through the swirling sheen and scooped up the dead young fish. Some had settled into the sediment, others floated belly-up or with mouths gaped.
He laid the fish on rocks along the shore. Juvenile steelhead and rainbow trout, lamprey, coho, Chinook, bull trout and sculpin were neatly wrapped in aluminum foil caskets, bagged up and put on ice.
The smell of gasoline wafted through the air.
It was less than 24 hours after a fuel tanker truck careened off Highway 101 on...
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