Eclipse's high tides break net, dump salmon in San Juans

[brooklynite]

KING Ch 5:

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - The public is being asked to help mop up a salmon spill from an imploded net holding 305,000 fish at a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm near Cypress Island in the San Juans.

Lummi fishers out for chinook on Sunday near Samish, south of Bellingham Bay, were surprised to pull up the Atlantic salmon - escapees that turned up in their nets again on Monday.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is urging the public to catch as many of the fish as possible, with no limit on size or number. The fish are about 10 pounds each. No one knows yet how many escaped. But Ron Warren, fish program assistant director for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the net had some 3 million pounds of fish in it when it imploded Saturday.

Warren said the spill was caused by tides pushed unusually high by Monday's approaching total solar eclipse.

[underpants]

1. Myrtle Beach. Really high tides last night. Within 40 feet of the dunes

We walked from dinner to a ferries wheel. What normally would be no problem was much more difficult. The stormwater drains were at least 60 feet from the water edge.

[KT2000]

2. this is actually the nightmare

that anti-pen folks predicted. Pen fish mixing with the wild salmon increases the risk of disease and lice being transmitted to the wild stock. Pen fish are treated, wild stock is not. I can see why they want those fish caught and soon.