Fish Farm Collapse

[Catherine]

Once again "factory farming" puts native species and the environment at risk. This time it is a large fish farm that raises large numbers of Atlantic Salmon in Pacific Ocean waters. The pens have collapsed allowing many thousands of Atlantic Salmon to be released into the Pacific Ocean.
Salmon have some specialized spawning grounds. They hatch in fresh water, migrate to the ocean and live for years and then must return to their actual hatching place to spawn. How will that be effected by the presence of salmon from another ocean. How will the outsider salmon react to the west coast conditions. Where will they try to go when they want to spawn?

http://bc.ctvnews.ca/first-nation-declar...-1.3560639


The drone footage is very good.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-co...-1.4261240


The west coast salmon are already under a lot of stress because of logging and oil spills. Some populations are in serious decline.
Adding thousands of invader fish who will compete for the same resources could prove disastrous for the west coast salmon.

No one really knows what the consequences will be. It seems somehow wrong and risky to raise the Atlantic salmon on the west coast. I always thought that they at least farmed the fish in their native waters. That would be a common sense move and once again common sense is proving to be not so common.