Escaped salmon found 40 miles upstream from Puget Sound

In August, 305,000 farm-raised Atlantic salmon weighing 8 to 10 pounds apiece escaped into Puget Sound when a net collapsed at a floating fish farm near Cyprus Island. Three months later, 102,000 of the fish remain unaccounted for, and Atlantic salmon are being caught by anglers and fisheries crews some 40 miles up the Skagit… » Read More

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