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A team of rescuers is hard to help airlift thousands of salmon in Canada to safety. The salmon are trapped in a section of the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada. They have been in that part of the river since a landslide in June. The landslide off the section of the river, which the salmon could not upstream to (lay their eggs). Rescuers and conservationists have several weeks looking at ways to help the fish. They decided the best way was to the fish to the other side of the fallen rocks by helicopter. The fish will then free to swim up to their breeding ground. Rescuers have been "working around the clock" to the salmon.

Conservationists that if the fish cannot lay their eggs, the entire local salmon population will at risk. Future numbers of the fish will to dangerously low levels. This would an impact on many of Canada's First Nations indigenous people. They the salmon for food and for cultural reasons. Salmon an important role in many traditional ceremonies of people who have along the Fraser River for hundreds of years. Their way of life will thanks to the rescuers' help. The rescuers are also at other ways to help the fish. One said: "We expect over three million [salmon] to north of that rockslide. With that number of fish, you have to find alternate methods."