27,000 salmon escaped from the breeding plant to the sea in Norway – only 700 were caught

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. The Norwegian broadcasting company NRK says.

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, 588 fish were caught near the refinery. 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 center.

A serious threat to natural salmon

– When the weather improved and the fishing started, unfortunately, many of the fish had already gone to the sea, says Hjetland in an interview with NRK.

According to Hjetland, it is too early to say what the salmon follows.

According to a report published by the Norwegian Marine Research Institute this week, salmon runs out of fish farms are a serious threat to wild salmon.

Fear blocks have been found to cause environmental problems by spreading diseases and parasites into wild fish. Runned salmon can also increase with natural salmon and thus weaken the genome of salmon stocks. The escape of thousands of breeding salons has been called a catastrophe for wild salmon.

*Juta edited 28.2. 10.35am, added map.*