"The Atlantic salmon bring with them pollution, virus and parasite amplification, and all that harms Pacific salmon and our waters of Washington," Beardslee said."<p>I honestly think that the Joe Blog's of the world have no idea how detrimental fish farming like this is to the environment, people in my family see it as a nice alternative to eating mammals. It's sad things like this have to happen to bring it to public attention.<p>I hope in the future they teach children to find out where there food comes from and what impact it has on their environment before purchasing it. This stuff isn't cool.
Related: Public urged to remain vigilant after Pacific salmon found in Irish rivers (August 14 2017)<p><a href="http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/public-urged-to-remain-vigilant-after-pacific-salmon-found-in-irish-rivers-36030119.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/public-ur...</a>
The worst thing about this is that this company will get nothing more than a slap on the wrist. And their larger fish farm that they want will of course get approved, even though they can't handle a smaller one. It's incredibly offensive how little government officials actually care about the environment.
Somewhere in the middle is the interesting bit (to me at least: "why is releasing fish an issue?"):<p>> Warren said his main concern is that Atlantic salmon could out-compete native Chinook salmon and steelhead for food and spawning grounds.
As bad as this is I hope some late night comedy show take it and runs with it. Lots of good xenophobia, immigration and west coast jokes could be made from this.
This is appalling. As an avid fly fisherman, these farms are disgusting. You can see how sick these fish are at the local costco. They put the farm raised salmon fillets right next to the wild salmon fillets. They are pale pink compared to the vibrant rich red of the wild.<p>These farmed salmon exist in this huge pen of netting, where they swim in their own filth and spread disease amongst each other and any wild salmon swimming through the filth that washes out from the netted pens. It hurts and damages the wild population as they spawn and swim through this sickness and get sick.<p>I wish they were banned personally, but if humans are not smart enough to not buy this sick farm raised salmon then we deserve to have salmon wiped from the earth.<p>It's such a shame.