This is but one of the reasons that we oppose aquaculture. Just as with mines, if you have aquaculture you will have accidents, and with accidents you have unexpected, negative results.
Grieg Seafood said that, while the financial consequences of the incident were still unclear, the fish had been insured.
Well, we, the 96,000 dead fish and the contaminated fjord are certainly glad the fish were insured. Makes everything alright.
Grieg Seafood practices aquaculture in Norway, Shetland [Scotland] and Newfoundland.
Let’s keep aquaculture out of the Gulf of Mexic0.
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Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum.
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it cannot be brought back © Jim Tatum
Grieg Seafood, which is headquartered in Norway, said that the leak occurred in one of their fish slaughterhouses in the town of Alta in the Norwegian Arctic, as The Independent reported.
“This is very sad,” harvesting plant manager Stine Torheim said in a statement. “Our focus is now first and foremost on cleaning up. We will get all facts about this incident on the table, to ensure that it will not happen again.”
In addition to contaminating the fjord, the chlorine also flowed into the Atlantic Ocean, Norwegian police said on Twitter, as The Independent reported.
“The emergency services are working on site to get an overview of the incident,” the police said.
The company said it did not yet know how the leak might impact the environment of the fjord, but had contracted an assessment from Akvaplan Niva. In general, chlorine tends to dilute and break down rapidly once it enters water….
The company uses chlorine in its day-to-day operations to disinfect the water used for processing at the plant. It said that it would cooperate with authorities as they investigate the cause of the leak. In the meantime, it is conducting a cleanup of the pens, removing dead fish. It said it expected the process to take a few days.
Grieg Seafood provides more than 25,000 tons of salmon to North America and Asia every year, according to CBS News. Approximately 430 tonnes were lost in the leak, the company said, which Norwegian media company Intrafish estimated to be worth around $3.4 million, CBS News reported. Grieg Seafood said that, while the financial consequences of the incident were still unclear, the fish had been insured.
