The Dangers Of Atlantic Salmon Farm Raised In The Pacific

     Over 300,000 Atlantic salmon escaped from their fish pens in the waters by Washington state, posing a serious risk to wild Pacific salmon populations. Even before this new danger to wild Pacific salmon, there were concerns that farm raised Atlantic salmon were spreading disease, sea lice and other dangers to wild Pacific salmon.
       Industrial factory farming for meat and fish comes at a heavy cost to the environment and to human and animal health, a cost that is not incurred by agribusinesses. Cheap meat and fish might seem cheap, but the unseen costs they incur are enormous.
       Why is Atlantic salmon being farm raised in the Pacific? Knowing that the Pacific salmon fisheries are some of the world's last healthy remaining fisheries that have not yet collapsed, why is it not far better protected? Better protected from disease spreading farm salmon and the risk of mixing farm Atlantic salmon populations with that of wild Pacific salmon. Better protected from the development and destruction of their habitat and much else.
        Atlantic salmon do not belong anywhere in the Pacific.