CYPRESS ISLAND ESCAPE
O
PRV INFECTION SITES
Skagit River
X XX
Skagit River Cypress Island
Victoria
Victoria
Snohomish River Cypress Island escape site
Skagit River
X ~ 419,000 fish Snohomish River
PRV-positive sample site
escaped fish caught
Seattle
0 fish
O ~ 216,000 fish
Victoria
Strait of Juan de Fuca
O
ONGOING OPERATIONS
X
lease cancelled, no longer in operation
X
lease cancelled, still in operation
O
still in operation
Snohomish River
O OO
Seattle
Seattle
~ 544,000 fish Puyallup River
On August 19th, 2017,
260,000 fish escaped
from a collapsed net pen off the coast of Cypress Island. Farmed
Puyallup River
Puyallup River
100% of escaped Atlantic salmon that have been
An estimated
1.1 to 1.6 million fish
tested were infected with piscine reovirus, a highly contagious
are being grown in Puget Sound’s remaining Atlantic salmon net
Atlantic salmon were subsequently caught by commercial and
virus that can infect and harm wild fish. The virus was also found
pens. There is a high likelihood the vast majority of those fish are
recreational fishermen all over Washington.
in an Atlantic salmon hatchery in Rochester, Washington.
infected with Piscine Reovirus as well.
Rochester Hatchery