Cooke Criticized for Salmon Pen Collapse; Escaped Numbers Much Bigger Than Initial Estimates
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton August 24, 2017
Cooke Seafoods is struggling with a public relations nightmare following the collapse of one of the company's farmed Atlantic salmon pens at their Cypress Island Farm in the San Juan Islands in Puget Sound.
After initially blaming high tides due to the solar eclipse, Cooke has now backed off that statement and acknowledged that they were already worried about the structural integrity of the pen, but decided to wait and harvest the salmon before making...
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