Rope break blamed as Mowi puts Carradale farm escape total at 48,834 Mowi Scotland has revealed that 48,834 salmon with an average weight of 4.2 kilos escaped when its farm at Carradale North broke free from its moorings during Storm Ellen and strong tides at Kilbrannan Sound last Thursday, August 20.
Blumar fish escape total topped 100,000, says Sernapesca Almost 104,000 Atlantic salmon escaped from two cages at a Chilean farm that was wrecked in stormy weather, government aquaculture agency Sernapesca has estimated.
Escape ‘highly probable’ as currents wreck Chilean farm Chilean aquaculture authority Sernapesca in investigating a “highly probable” escape of fish at a Salmones Camanchaca farm in which a cage pontoon was badly damaged by bad weather.
50,000 trout escape from Cermaq Chile farm Salmonid farmer Cermaq has reported an escape of up to 50,000 fish from a trout farm in the Magallanes region of Chile.
73,600 fish escape from Mowi site after storm damages cage Mowi Scotland has reported the escape of 73,600 salmon with an average weight of 1.9 kilograms following damage to a pen at the company’s Colonsay farm during storm Brendan last week.
Second big escape in a year at Mowi high-energy site Nearly 24,000 salmon with an average weight of 4.5kg escaped from Mowi Scotland’s high-energy site at Hellisay, Isle of Barra in October, it has been revealed.
Fish escape from site with suspected ISA An unknown number of fish have escaped from a Norwegian farm where there is a suspected outbreak of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA).
Rapid response to escape recaptures 20% of fish Fishermen working for Chilean salmon farmer Salmones Aysén have helped recover around 5,000 of the 25,000 fish that were discovered to have escaped from a pen on a farm in the Calbuco area on Monday.
10,000 salmon escape from slaughter plant Around 10,000 salmon with an average weight of just under 4kg have escaped from a processing plant holding facility in Norway.
Escaped farmed salmon found in New Brunswick waterway The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) has raised concerns due to the discovery of farmed salmon that have been found in a New Brunswick (NB) waterway.
49,000 salmon escape from Norwegian farm Norwegian salmon farmer SinkabergHansen has calculated that 49,000 salmon with an average weight of 2.6kg escaped from its farm at Oksbåsen, near Trondheim at the weekend.
Dawnfresh to count fish to work out Etive escape total Trout farmer Dawnfresh will use a wellboat to count the fish in a cage at its Etive 4 farm at Inverawe, Loch Etive tomorrow following an escape discovered on June 13.
Ocean Farm 1 escape total worked out at 16,000 Around 16,000 salmon escaped from SalMar’s experimental Ocean Farm 1 cage last September, it has been revealed.
Chile: Salmon farmer admits escape of nearly 27,000 fish The Chilean salmon Ventisqueros has confirmed the escape of nearly 27,000 salmon from a site in Tubildad in the Quemchi district of Chiloe.
