Mowi Company, the largest supplier of salmon in the world, announced that about 27,000 salmon of the company had escaped from the troms seed cage on the evening , according to the sheet The Guardian.
About 27,000 salmon has escaped from the cage in Norway
The company said that the cage mesh mesh with natural water was damaged by storms, causing about 1/4 of 105,000 salmon being raised out. The average weight of this fish is 5.5 kg.
Mowi calls for professional “need” registered in Norway to find and bring fish to the receiving point, where they will be rewarded 45 USD (about 1.1 million) for each fish.
Vegard Oen Hatten, a spokesman for the Norwegian Fisheries Department, said that companies are often allowed to catch fish from cages in the 500 m area from the cage. However, the authorities killed Mowi’s base and ordered to expand the search area due to the large number of fish escaped.
Experts assess this fish that may have a great risk for natural salmon when they compete where to lay eggs and can spread the disease. The mating between fish and natural fish can produce a lower survival rate.
The Atlantic salmon rests at a lake in the location of the Namsen River in Norway in the process of swimming upstream
“27,000 raised salmon is a disaster for wild salmon. Science has proven that the breeding between natural fish and farming fish has a low survival rate in the long term.” The Pal Mugaas spokesman for the natural salmon conservation organization Norske Lakseelver said.
Norway exported about 1.2 million tons of salmon raised every year. Last summer, the amount of natural salmon in this country dropped to history, leading to the fact that authorities banned salmon fishing in 33 rivers. This year, the proposed figure is 42 rivers and 3 bans.
