Recent events concerning Atlantic salmon escapees in the Pacific

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Authors: McKinnell, S., Thomson, A. J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1997
• Subjects: Short communication; British Columbia; Canada; Pacific; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar; Alaska
• Online Access: http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/54/6/1221; https://doi.org/10.1016/S1054-3139(97)80029-X

Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar L.) escapees from commercial salmon farms in Washington State, USA, and British Columbia, Canada, arecaught in fisheries from Washington State to Alaska. A large escape from a farm near Cypress Island, Washington, was likely to have been the cause of increased abundance...