Byrne said he was told by company officials that additional salmon cages have been affected. Byrne did not reference any numbers or specific figures. He said the affected licences for Northern Harvest Sea Farms — a subsidiary of the aquaculture giant Mowi — have been suspended as a "result of the ongoing investigation and evidence of non-compliance." "I will be amending licence conditions to all unaffected Northern Harvest Seafood Farms and other associated Mowi licence sites in the coming days," Byrne added. Northern Harvest Sea Farms, which held a news conference in St. John's Friday afternoon, expects that 2.6 million dead salmon will need to be removed because of what it calls a "temperature event." The company also said that of that number, 600,000 salmon had not been included in the company's own estimate.