By Dave Branco

Slide slows salmon

20 dump-truck loads removed so far to help spawning salmon

Jul 17, 2019 | 9:29 AM

Work to clear a massive rock slide in British Columbia’s Fraser River continues. A joint update last night by the B-C government and the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans says rock scalers are making progress getting large sections of rock to release above the river at the slide site northwest of Kamloops. Scalers have so far removed about 20 dump-truck loads of material off the face. Last month’s slide created a five-metre waterfall, holding back hundreds of thousands of salmon from migrating to spawning grounds past the obstruction.