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 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.

An upstate New York food bank was offered more than 40,000 pounds of coho salmon — a bountiful feast. But there was a catch. The fish were still swimming in their tanks at an area salmon farm that was going out of business.