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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

Seafood firm offers bounty to catch 27,000 escaped salmon off Norway

View of salmon in a fish farm from beneath the water, with netting on one side
Salmon in a fish farm in Norway. Mowi said it was ‘a serious and very regrettable situation’. Photograph: Bluegreen Pictures/Alamy

The global seafood company Mowi is offering a bounty to fishers who catch escaped salmon after an estimated 27,000 fish went missing from a farm off the Norwegian coast in what campaigners said was a “disaster for wild salmon”.

The world’s largest farmed salmon producer is offering a reward of 500 kroner (£36) per salmon caught after it said a quarter of its 105,000 salmon population escaped from a cage in Troms, north-west Norway.

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