Sea Save Foundation
Contributor
An aquaculture company, blaming the solar eclipse, on a net pen break, released 300,000 farmed Atlantic salmon into Puget Sound, Washington State. Washington is the only west coast state that allows farming of the non-native Atlantic salmon in net pens. The release could hurt the native fish populations, which include Chinook salmon and steelhead trout. When farmed Atlantic salmon escape into the wild, they compete with native populations for food and introduce disease and parasites.
Read more here (story #1).
Read more here (story #1).