Thousands of Atlantic salmon escape from fish farm into Pacific

Company admits it doesn’t know how many of its 305,000 fish are left after a net ‘failure’ amid concern about the impact on native speciesThousands of Atlantic salmon may have escaped into Pacific waters after a net pen holding 305,000 of the fish was damaged at a farm in Washington state, leading wildlife officials to call for anglers to catch as many of the fish as possible. The fish farm’s owner, Cooke Aquaculture, said on Wednesday that several thousand Atlantic salmo