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Chinook Salmon Begin Journey to Sea--On a Truck

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Federal and state wildlife agencies launched a massive "fish lift" this week, driving young Chinook salmon by the tanker-full from a hatchery at the northern end of the Central Valley all the way to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Despite some misgivings about the future impact of trucking the salmon, officials say this is the only way any of the commercially valuable fish will make it to the ocean this year.

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