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In 2017, about 263,000 farmed non-native Atlantic salmon escaped from a net in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break. [69] Sea lice, particularly Lepeophtheirus salmonis and various Caligus species, including C. clemensi and C. rogercresseyi, can cause deadly infestations of both farm-grown and wild salmon.
FILE - An Atlantic salmon leaps out of the water at a Cooke Aquaculture farm pen on Oct. 11, 2008, near Eastport, Maine. A New Hampshire group wants to be the first to bring offshore fish farming ...
Workers prepare sides of fresh farmed salmon for filleting and packaging in the processing plant at a fish farm operated by Salmar ASA on the island of Froya, Norway, on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.
Farmed Atlantic salmon are known to occasionally escape from cages and enter the habitat of wild populations. Interbreeding between escaped farm fish and wild fish decreases genetic diversity and introduces "the potential to genetically alter native populations, reduce local adaptation and negatively affect population viability and character". [42]
Salmon farming is significant in Chile, Norway, Scotland, Canada and the Faroe Islands; it is the source for most salmon consumed in the United States and Europe. Atlantic salmon are also, in very small volumes, farmed in Russia and Tasmania, Australia.
In February, Fisheries and Oceans Canadian Coast Guard announced their decision not to renew licenses for fifteen open-net pen Atlantic salmon farm sites in the Discovery Islands, stating that ...
Prior to the incident, Washington was the only US state on the Pacific coast where Atlantic salmon was farmed. [3] Atlantic salmon are favored by salmon farmers, since their domestication process is much farther along; farmed Atlantic salmon have been selected for faster growth, higher tolerance to disease, and greater docility.
Any Atlantic salmon you buy is farm raised, whether or not it’s Norwegian. Wild Atlantic salmon do exist, and they used to be abundant in the Northeastern coastal rivers of the U.S. But due to ...