Thousands of salmon escaped from a Tromsian fish farm in February. Only three percent of the escaped fish were caught, others escaped to the sea.
Thousands of breeding blocks are still enjoying their escape on the Arctic Ocean and they are no longer trying to catch them. Norwegian tells the story Broadcasting Company NRK. A total of about 27,000 salmon escaped from a fish farm in Dyrøy municipality in early February. It was about a quarter of the fish of the entire cultivated plant.
Attempts were made to catch fish, but in the end only less than three percent, or 588 fish were caught nearby. Mowi, a fish and seafood company that was named as the largest producer of salmon cultivated in the world, announced that he had stopped hunting on Sunday.
Mowi offered a fee of € 500, or about € 43 for each salmon requested. When the requested reward fish are included in the invoices, a total of 700 salmon have been recovered. By law, breeding agencies are allowed to request run -off salmon on nets up to 500 meters from the breeding company.
A serious threat to natural salmon
Mow’s Communications Director interviewed by NRK Ola Helge Hjetland Foot fishing could not be started immediately as you storm in the area.
– When the weather improved and the fishing started, unfortunately, many of the fish had already gone to the sea, Hjetland says in an interview with NRK.
According to Hjetland, it is too early to say what the salmon follows.
Published by the Norwegian Marine Research Institute this week According to the report Salmon from fish farms are a serious threat to wild salmon.
Karkka salmon have been found to cause environmental problems, spreading diseases and parasites to wild fish. Runned salmon can also increase with natural salmon and thus weaken the genome of salmon stocks. Thousands of breeding blocks have a escape journey called a disaster For wild salmon.