30,000 salmon escape farm pen

Carolyn Heiman
July 3, 2008
Times Colonist

A lone commercial seiner combed waters around Frederick Arm north of Campbell River yesterday in a vain effort to catch 30,000 escaped farm-raised Atlantic salmon.

The escape was one of the biggest for Marine Harvest Canada, the largest aquaculture business in the province.

Read the full article in the Times Colonist.

Posted July 3rd, 2008