Fire at fish farm near Port Hardy damages net pen, up to 21,000 Atlantic salmon escape

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

VICTORIA — A fire at a fish farm near Port Hardy at Queen Charlotte Strait has resulted in the escape of more than 20,000 farmed Atlantic salmon.

Fish farm company Mowi, formerly known as Marine Harvest, says in a statement divers are investigating the damage resulting from a fire at its salmon farm at Robertson Island.

Mowi says it has notified federal regulators and area First Nations about the fire and the subsequent escape of the estimated 21,000 Atlantic salmon from the damaged net pen.

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Area environmental and Indigenous groups say in a statement Atlantic salmon are not native to Pacific waters and the escape presents ecological and environmental risks to wild salmon stocks.

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[applegrove]

1. As if the pacific salmon needed more stresses.

[2naSalit]

2. It was just a matter of time

those things are biological time bombs.

[pansypoo53219]

3. stupid humans.

[Canoe52]

4. Another one? Crap...