The environmental concern is
This fish is big enough to get into the spawning grounds and mix with the wild salmon. This is serious genetic pollution," the association’s leader, Ruben Oddekalv, is quoted as saying by the local newspaper Folkebladet.
The fish company Mowi, which owns the facility, is now offering a bounty of 500 Norwegian kroner (€43) for each salmon caught.
@DukeTrout thoughts, comments?
Yeah. Farmed salmon are bad news for wild salmon when they get out. Even when they aren’t the same species, they can disrupt the spawn. Many years ago, an Atlantic salmon farming operation in Puget Sound lost their fish during a storm. Anglers started catching Atlantic salmon, and Washington Dept. of Fish & Wildlife made similar rules to encourage people to catch and keep the escaped salmon. Even with that, biologists found damage to wild Pacific salmon spawning hundreds of miles inland from the escapees.
Even worse is when the farmed fish can mess up wild genetics by spawning with wild fish.
We’re in the unfortunate situation in the Pacific Northwest where we are at least temporarily 100% on board with hatchery salmon release, in a last-ditch attempt to save resident orcas in Puget Sound and around Vancouver Island. They need every fish they can get because 90% of salmon bound for Washington, Oregon, and California are caught further north by (mostly illegal) commercial fishing. Frankly, I think the US would be better off having a carrier group stationed in the Bering Sea than in the Middle East…
That seems like a problem that will sort itself out.
In 1990 a visitor’s excursion into the rhino enclosure ended fatally. A 29-year-old woman had climbed into the rhino enclosure to stroke a young animal. A mother rhino felt threatened and attacked the woman.
Heh. Gorgeous example of understatement!
I shouldn’t have made light of the situation, as this time at least it appears there was a medical emergency.
Restricts absorption of necessary nutrients.
Darwinism at work.
That was pretty good, thanks for posting that 
That was really interesting and also something I didn’t know about until today. Too old to participate as a kid and didn’t have any kids until after stacking had faded.
Does make me wonder about the bucket stacks I’ve seen at my now elementary-aged kid’s gym. Whenever they’ve been out for a parent’s night the kids enjoyed stacking them into pyramids and walls and then yelling when someone else was “hoggin the buckets”
Reindeer spotting
Up in Finland’s far north, the regional paper Lapin Kansa explores mysterious cases of reindeer theft that may suggest poaching.Reindeer remains have turned up in the Lapland wilderness this winter, sparking suspicions that poachers may be active. A few years ago, a similar phenomenon was happening on a large scale, but the group responsible was caught at that time.
“These cases arise occasionally. Reindeer herders discover these cases fairly easily in the wilderness during the winter season,” Anne Ollila, executive director of the reindeer herders’ association, told LK.
“A few quieter years passed, but this winter, cases have surfaced again,” she said.
No worries it’s hungry Russian soldiers?
Same person also made a “mathematically impossible” ball for Matt Parker, based on the UK road sign for a football stadium:
