Guess Where Some of the Escaped Atlantic Salmon Are Now: Skagit River
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Bellingham Herald] BY KIMBERLY CAUVEL - December 12, 2017
More than three months after being released during the collapse of a fish farm near Cypress Island, Atlantic salmon are being caught about 40 miles up the Skagit River.
“Virtually every time we have done work in the river we have encountered Atlantics along the way,” Upper Skagit Indian Tribe Natural Resources Director Scott Schuyler said.
Since the Aug. 20 collapse, Schuyler said Upper Skagit fishermen and fisheries crews have caught the nonnative fish in Mount Vernon, near Lyman and east of Hamilton while pursuing native salmon.
Most recently, a crew gathering chum to stock the ...
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