Eclipse tides break Washington salmon-farm nets sparking B.C. concerns

The escape of hundreds of thousands of Atlantic salmon from a fish farm northeast of Victoria on the Washington state side of the San Juan Islands has sparked concerns by B.C. conservation groups about the potential impacts on wild Pacific salmon.
The farm operator, Cooke Aquaculture Pacific, said anchor lines to net pens broke Saturday afternoon and is blaming strong tides and currents leading up to Monday’s solar eclipse for causing the damage and allowing an unknown number of adult fish