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Norwegian salmon farm offers bounty for escaped fish 
By Michael Pizzi NO Source: aljazeera 11/18/2013
Michael Pizzi
 The world’s largest producer of farmed salmon is offering a $90 bounty for every recaptured fish after possibly thousands of farmed Atlantic salmon staged a jailbreak from their 127,000-fish cage in Norway, further endangering the wild salmon population and concerning those who prefer the wild variety for health reasons.

Marine Harvest, a Norwegian company that farms and exports fish all over the world, announced the reward on Monday after discovering over the weekend that fish had escaped their massive submerged cage through a hole likely caused by ongoing stormy weather.
 

"Marine Harvest takes the incident very seriously. We acknowledge that escapes can have a negative impact on wild salmon, and we have a goal of zero escapes," Marte Grindaker, a spokeswoman for the company, told Al Jazeera.

In addition to setting out nets in the surrounding area and immediately repairing the damaged cage, Marine Harvest has contacted local fisherman to offer them a cash incentive for help recovering the fish.

But Grindaker said that, as far as she knew, no fish had yet been returned and that the total number of escapees was unknown.

  
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