"Every escape adds to the pressure." Experts sound alarm after almost 75,000 endangered salmon escape Scotland fish farm: 'Pose a serious threat' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The escape of thousands of salmon from an open-pen fish farm has endangered the wild salmon population in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aquaculture cage floats in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. An aquaculture cage floats in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico ...

Wild populations of salmon in the Atlantic Ocean continue to face trouble from an unusual source: farmed salmon. On Monday, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released its first ...

An aquaculture cage floats in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. Floating cages with fish by the thousands may be popping in the Gulf of Mexico under a controversial plan that was backed by President ...

Salmon hatcheries, which are meant to boost wild fish numbers, often harm native populations, according to an analysis. Hatcheries breed and raise fish in a controlled, captive setting. They can be a ...

Norway is the largest exporter of salmon in the world. And while some of those fish are wild-caught, many are raised in "fish farms"- large cylindrical pens made of nylon in the open water. Sometimes ...