Lummi Nation fishermen catch an estimated 20,000 Atlantic salmon following fish farm collapse – CBC

Washington state official: ‘This is a very complex industrial salvage operation’

Aug 29, 2017

The Lummi Nation says its fishermen have pulled more than 90,000 kilograms of Atlantic salmon from the Puget Sound since Thursday — the same day the nation issued a state of emergency following the net pen failure of a nearby fish farm.

It’s not clear how many salmon escaped on Aug. 19, but the pens held somewhere around 305,000 fish, Washington’s Department of Fish and Wildlife has said.

Initially, Cooke Aquaculture, the company that owns the fish farm near the San Juan Islands, not far from Victoria, B.C., estimated the number of escapees in the range of 4,000 to 5,000.

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