Atlantic Salmon Federation Calls on Aquaculture Industry to Find Source of Escaped Salmon
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC News] - October 9, 2017
The Atlantic Salmon Federation is sounding the alarm over what it sees as a lack of action to deal with continuous escapes of farmed salmon into the wild.
Seventeen farmed salmon have turned up at the Magaguadavic River fish ladder in St. George, N.B., so far this fall, and four more salmon detected on Friday using underwater video will be tested to determine if they are escapees or wild.
Jonathan Carr, the federation's research director, believes the escapees indicate a larger undiscovered or unreported escape event at an aquaculture site in the ...
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