Envirothink
How wild salmon are supposed to look. But you won’t see this at British Columbian fish farms. Photo by Barbara Jackson, Pixabay.
They said it couldn’t happen. They said wild salmon would never breach penned-up fish farms. They were wrong. And that’s a big problem.
Filed under: Marine wildlife | Tagged: Chinook salmon, fish farms, salmon farming, sea lice, Sea Shepherd, toxic chemicals, UNESCO World BIosphere Reserve, wild salmon | Leave a comment »
Farmed fish have escaped into the Pacific, threatening wild salmon, photo courtesy of NOAA
Contrary to assurances by fish farming concerns, thousands of farmed Atlantic salmon have escaped into the Pacific Ocean. They escaped from a damaged net pen at a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm off Cypress Island in Washington’s Puget Sound on Saturday, This has sparked fears that the farm-raised fish could threaten wild Pacific salmon.
Filed under: Marine wildlife | Tagged: chemical arms race, environmentalists, farmed salmon, natural gas pipelines, NOAA, sea lice, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, US Fish and Wildlife, wild caught salmon | Leave a comment »
