Image Credit: BC Government

By James Peters

Big Bar Slide

VIDEO: Specialists take salmon past Fraser River slide site, blast overhanging rock

Jul 23, 2019 | 5:15 PM

BIG BAR, B.C. — New video footage released by the provincial government shows how provincial and federal officials are working together to try to save Fraser River salmon.

The fish are being prevented from swimming upstream to their spawning grounds by a massive landslide near Big Bar last month.

WATCH: Specialists move salmon from the river into a holding tank. (Video Credit: BC Government)

On Monday, a team of specialists tested a process in which fish are directed to an off-channel holding pond and transfered by net to aluminum holding tanks.

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From there, the tanks are transported above the slide site by helicopter.

The helicopter transport is touted as one possible solution to the problem that threatens the future of Fraser River salmon.

Monday also saw a controlled blast level overhanging rock that was left on the slide’s face.

Officials say the blast was successful at fragmenting the rock into tiny pieces so as not to further harm the fish.

WATCH: A blast fragments overhanging rock at the slide site. (Video Credit: BC Government)