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| 40,000 salmon escape from B.C. fish farm |
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| Tuesday, 27 October 2009 12:47 | |||
Marine Harvest Canada says the fish escaped on Wednesday from its farm at Port Elizabeth, on the mainland across the water from the northern tip of Vancouver Island. The company says divers discovered several holes in two pens at the farm and efforts are being made to prevent more escapes from the pens, which still hold thousands of fish. The Living Oceans environmental group says hundreds of thousands of farmed salmon escape every year. Conservationists say escaped farm salmon can spread disease and sea lice to wild salmon on the B.C. coast.... Read Full Article 
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About 40,000 Atlantic salmon have escaped from a fish farm on the B.C. coast.
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