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From: Jeremy Tiemann
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:54 AM
To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
Subject: RE: NANFA-- Speaking announcement for John Volpe (Atlantic
Salmon)
This is not 100% true... farm raised Atlantic salmon (as with most,
if not all, farmed raised fish) that escape compete with and
hybridize with native Atlantic salmon, further degrading the quality
and quantity of the Atlantic salmon stock.
>Baring the local ecosystem damage the pens create from the compiling of
wastes
>below... It wouldn't be such a big deal if they were using the Atlantic to
>farm the fish in pens because escapes aren't any problem there with Atlantic
>Salmon. However, to provide analogy... It would be just as backward
thinking
>to farm Pacific Salmon in the Atlantic.
>
>Todd
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