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Where the Farmed Things Are
30,000 farmed salmon escape off B.C. coast, endangering wild stocks |
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03 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 11:26 AM on 03 Jul 2008 Some 30,000 farmed Atlantic salmon have escaped from their pen off the coast of British Columbia into the Pacific Ocean. Farmed salmon can harm wild salmon stocks -- which are already declining on the west coast -- by competing with them for food as well as spreading disease. In this case, the escaped salmon are also a different species which is not native to the area ... |
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