Wednesday, March 5, 2014

06/03/2014: Poor weather see 155,000 salmon escape

Extremely poor weather has resulted in the escape of approximately 155,000 salmon from a Shetland fish farm.

Salmon farming is a massive part of the Fish industry - courtesy 0886 News

Meridian Salmon Group has confirmed that damage caused to its fish cages at the Ness of Copister, on the island of Yell, from strong winds and heavy seas led to the escape, which represents almost half of its total farmed fish of some 364,000 salmon. The remaining salmon have been relocated.

Read more on this story reported on BBC here ...

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