Thousands of Atlantic Salmon Escape into Puget Sound After Massive Net Pen Failure at Cooke Site
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Seattle Times] By Lynda V. Mapes - August 23, 2017
It’s open season on Atlantic salmon as the public is urged to help mop up a salmon spill from a damaged net pen holding 305,000 fish at a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm near Cypress Island.
Lummi fishers out for chinook on Sunday near Samish, south of Bellingham Bay, were shocked to pull up the spotted, silvery-sided Atlantic salmon — escapees that turned up in their nets again Monday...
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