SEDRO WOOLLEY, Wash. (AP) - Washington state officials say an Atlantic salmon that escaped from a collapsed net pen at Cypress Island has been captured in a drift net 40 miles (64 kilometers) up the Skagit River.
Fish veterinarian Jed Varney of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife tells The Seattle Times in a story on Friday that the 3-foot (1-meter) fish was thin but looked good with no significant bacteria or parasites.
Varney says he found several vertebrae of an unidentified small fish in the Atlantic salmon’s stomach.
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A member of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe caught the fish Tuesday while drift-net fishing for hatchery chinook.
The Atlantic salmon and about 300,000 others escaped from Cooke Aquaculture’s net-pen farm in August when one of its pens collapsed.
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Information from: The Seattle Times, http://www.seattletimes.com
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