'The Risk Come Next Year', Anglers Warn, as They Reel in Hundreds of Farmed Fish After Mowi Escape
Campaigners and anglers fear the escaped fish will mix with wild salmon, weakening the genetics of the endangered species.
The potential risk to Scotland’s fragile Atlantic salmon population from the recent mass fish farm escape on the west coast will come next year, the head of a fisheries board has warned.
Calls were made to fine corporate giant Mowi after 75,000 farmed fish escaped enclosures in the north of Loch Linnhe, near Fort William, during Storm Amy earlier this month.
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