What is not common knowledge is an earlier farm collapse, spilling Atlantics into Puget Sound in 1996: "On 2 July 1996, high tidal flows destroyed 7 of 10 net pens at a salmon farm near Cypress Island, Washington. Of 101000 Atlantic salmon that were killed or escaped, 35000 fish had body weights ranging between 0.4 and 0.5 kg, while the remainder weighed between 2.7 and 3.7 kg. From 4 July 1996, and for the remainder of the summer, Atlantic salmon were caught in a test fishery that
operates annually at the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait (Fig.1). "
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