Escaped farmed salmon found surviving in the wild one year later

The Directorate of Fisheries in Iceland said it caught 32 salmon in a stream in Westfjords, Iceland, and discovered through preliminary DNA analysis that 16 of them were farmed salmon.

The directorate, Fiskistofa, said there are indications the farmed salmon were among the fish that escaped a year ago from the farm of Arnarlax at Haganes in Arnarfjörðurm.

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