Salmon farm donates 13,000 fish to food bank

A food bank netted a huge haul of 13,000 fresh salmon. The catch? The fish were still alive
LocalCoho, a soon-to-close salmon farm in the small upstate city of Auburn, wanted to give 40,000 pounds (18,100 kilograms) of coho salmon to the Food Bank of Central New York, a mother lode of high-quality protein that could feed thousands of families.
New York food bank receives 13,000 salmon. The catch? The fish are still alive
An upstate New York salmon farm facing closure donated 13,000 live fish to a local food bank. With a tight deadline, volunteers and staff worked rapidly to capture, process, and freeze the salmon.
A Fish Farm Offered 40,000 Pounds of Salmon for Free. There Was a Catch.
When an upstate New York salmon farm went out of business, nonprofits had days to find a way to catch, refrigerate and clean more than 13,000 fish.
Food Bank of Central New York receives live salmon donation
A food bank just outside of Syracuse received an extremely generous and highly unusual donation, but it was one that came with a big catch. The donation was 40,000 pounds of live salmon in the tanks of a nearby salmon farm that was going out of business.
Gallery: Food bank nets 13,000 fresh salmon
Stephen Zicari, left, and Brad Bednarski, employees of Local Coho salmon fish farm, corral fish Jan. 24 in one of the farm's tanks in Auburn, N.Y. Coho salmon slated for donation to the Food Bank of Central New York,
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