Emergency intervention repairs dried-out salmon habitat in the Indian River

[@PacoOtis]

Maybe more video of the work? We can't see what you did.

[@sw8741]

Hmmm.....I wonder what happened when rivers dried up blocking passage before anyone had heavy equipment.

[@USS_Liberty_never_forget]

People used wholly mammoth to help them to clear the rocks

[@0ctatr0n]

This felt like it was less about saving salmon and more about corporate promotion and something conjured up by a marketing department.. "We needed to pull the resources together from several departments to get one guy with a backhoe to band-aid the problem"

[@PacificSalmonFoundation]

Hi @0ctatr0n the work was intended to be an emergency fix and part of the Emergency Drought Response program that was set up last year to address emerging issues like this. At the time there were tens of thousands of pink salmon holding below the blockage with many dying off before they had a chance to spawn. The quick response in a remote area with challenging terrain meant the salmon were able to get through. Of course there is longer term work being done to restore habitat and help salmon be more resilient in the face of climate change and other pressures. You can learn more about this work at www.psf.ca

[@SMoore-js6fy]

So, did the emergency work on the channel pass salmon onto to the spawning reach??

[@PacificSalmonFoundation]

Yes, as soon as the channel was complete thousands of salmon were able to reach the upper Indian River to spawn.

[@Dtrain-kq8kd]

great job...there was no hope for them without help

[@CanseeYou-rw6rc]

Great job

[@BelovedfriendLSB]

yup connecting dots workers and funds

[@340wbymag]

When will people finally understand that beavers are the key to river and stream restoration, and to the recovery and protection of fish? Given the opportunity, beavers would create wetlands that would feed cool, clean water into the river during the driest months of the year, and those wetlands would be habitat for fish, frogs, turtles, and countless other creatures. Half-ass attempts by humans to save the fish will never perform as well as beavers. They are a keystone species, and the river protection will never be complete without them.