"Ignore those other 30,000 fish competing for your dinner"

Seems 30,000 ATLANTIC salmon have escaped from a farm into the PACIFIC ocean. The aquaculture company says it's not a problem for the wild fish. Hmmm, I wouldn't want 30,000 of anything moving into my habitat. Talk about an illegal immigration problem.

Through our work with Environmental Defense Fund to improve salmon farming, I got a chance to visit open ocean net pen operations run by this very same company. Actually, I have to say, the employees were conscientious and concerned about the environment. It's just that our views on "acceptable" levels of impact were very different.

At Bon Appetit Management Company, our chefs use only wild salmon. Until the aquaculture industry stops farming species not native to the waters they are being raised in (and solves a number of other problems), I think that's the safest policy for our planet.

- Maisie Greenawalt, vice president

Comments

[Farmer de Ville]

Well that's just super!

Let's taint the entire gene pool of wild Pacific salmonids with DNA from farm-loose Atlantic refugees...

What's the worst that could happen?

Farmer
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