Six weeks ago today a fish farm holding 305,000 Atlantic salmon — a farm the owners and state knew was aging and worn — collapsed in Deepwater Bay near Cypress Island, allowing thousands of the fish to swim into surrounding waters.

With about 160,000 of the fish leaving their nets, the incident is the second-largest release of Atlantic salmon in the state’s history, this time from a site in Skagit County where the fish have been commercially raised for 40 years.


— Reporter Kimberly Cauvel: 360-416-2199, kcauvel@skagitpublishing.com, Twitter: @Kimberly_SVH, Facebook.com/bykimberlycauvel

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