Specimen ID | 1418909 |
Group | Fishes |
Genus | Salmo |
Species | salar |
Common Name | Atlantic Salmon |
State | WA |
County | San Juan |
Locality | San Juan Islands drainage |
Mapping Accuracy | Centroid |
Centroid Type | HUC8 |
HUC8 Name | San Juan Islands |
HUC8 Number | 17110003 |
Map | |
Collection Day | 18 |
Collection Month | 9 |
Collection Year | 2017 |
Year Accuracy | Publication Year |
Potential Pathway | escaped captivity aquaculture |
Status | unknown |
Reference 1 |
Ref. Number: | 30623 |
Author: | Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers! |
Date: | 2017 |
Title: | Escaped Atlantic Salmon reported 250 KM north of collapsed fish farm |
Publisher: | Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers! |
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Comments | Escaped farmed Atlantic salmon have swum as far as 250 kilometres north of Washington state’s San Juan Islands, where they broke free from a ruptured pen last month containing an estimated 305,000 fish. |
Record Type | Literature |
Freshwater/Marine | Marine |
Number Released | 305000 |