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The wind began to howl across Puget Sound, Washington. Waves over three meters high crashed violently against the massive steel fish cages below. Hundreds of fishermen and engineers battled the storm as metal groaned and the sea raged. Then, a deep, thunderous blast echoed from beneath the surface.
In an instant, 260,000 salmon — weighing thousands of tons — burst free from their enclosures, surging into the ocean like a living waterfall. It was a sight both breathtaking and terrifying.
But what no one realized at that moment was that this single event would unleash a $1 billion ecological disaster, one that would haunt the Pacific Northwest for years to come.
This wasn’t a gift from the sea — it was an invasion.
Because these salmon? They were never meant to live in the Pacific Ocean.
Deep Discover: The Washington Salmon Invasion — how 260,000 escaped fish triggered a billion-dollar catastrophe.

The 2017 Atlantic salmon escape from net pen facilities in Washington State represents one of the most significant aquaculture failures in North American history. Understanding this incident requires examining the technology and economics of salmon farming, the biological and ecological consequences of species introductions, and the complex regulatory and environmental questions surrounding marine aquaculture operations in Pacific Northwest waters.
On August 19, 2017, a net pen facility operated by Cooke Aquaculture near Cypress Island in Puget Sound experienced catastrophic structural failure. The facility, consisting of large underwater cages designed to contain hundreds of thousands of Atlantic salmon being raised for commercial harvest, collapsed during a period of high winds and strong tidal currents. The failure released approximately 260,000 Atlantic salmon—a non-native species in Pacific waters—into the marine environment. When 260,000 farmed salmon escaped into the wild, Washington’s waters changed forever. 🐟 What started as a routine aquaculture operation turned into one of the biggest ecological disasters in U.S. history — costing nearly $1 billion in damage.

In this documentary, we reveal how thousands of Atlantic salmon broke free, the massive environmental fallout that followed, and how this single event reshaped the future of the Pacific Northwest’s fishing industry. 🌊

Dive into the story of greed, negligence, and nature’s revenge — a warning of what happens when humans lose control of the sea.

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