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Eclipse’s High Tides Blamed For Spill Of Farmed Atlantic Salmon Into Salish Sea


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This story was updated at 3:09 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25. See correction below. Along with cooling the air and dimming skies in the region, this week’s solar eclipse caused high tides. The resulting currents damaged a net pen and released unknown numbers of farmed Atlantic salmon into open waters south of the San Juan Islands.
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