UK: Great salmon escape could turn wild fish into ‘couch potatoes’

September 18, 2007

They are an identical species, but while one is lean and incredibly fit, the SAS of the fish world, the other is an obese, idle creature, a couch potato with fins. When the two interbreed, the results can be a genetic disaster.

Such a disaster looms, according to experts, after the escape of more than 100,000 farmed Atlantic salmon over the past six months on the West Coast.....

Source: Great salmon escape could turn wild fish into ‘couch potatoes’

Link: 33 Conservation Groups Call on Salmon Farms to Protect Wild Salmon
Link: Once they were a national treasure chest, teeming with fish and wildlife. Now the waters of the North Sea are quiet, almost dead