2,500 Farmed Atlantic Salmon Escape In British Columbia

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Hundreds of Atlantic salmon escaped from a fish farm through holes in a net, resulted in renewed demands by Indians and environmentalists for a shutdown of the industry.

Stolt Sea Farm officials confirmed that 2,587 fish escaped last weekend from the Sargeaunt Pass operation in the Broughton Archipelago off northern Vancouver Island. Vice president Dale Blackburn said the company is disciplining a manager and others who failed to check a net with three holes, one of five nets being used to sort 9,000 of the 600,000 fish at the site.

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Environmentalists said the salmon could wind up in rivers as far away as Alaska, possibly spawning, competing with native salmon for food and habitat and spreading sea lice and other ailments.

"It's ecologically crazy for us to think that the environment can keep handling those pressures," Jennifer Lash, director of the Living Oceans Society in Sointula, said Thursday."

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[shadu]

1. Are these the salmon that grow super fast and eat everything?

The ones that are super aggressive and will result
in the destruction of wild salmon populations?
The ones salmon farmers promised would never ever ever never
escape into the wild?
The problem is, in the real world a lot of people
just don't give a fuck.
Still, you gotta wonder: how was this allowed to happen?