The FN says three Salmon have be caught so far.
SECHELT, B.C. - A First Nation on British Columbia's south coast says its members have caught three Atlantic salmon after thousands of the fish escaped from a farm in Washington state.
The Shishalh First Nation in Sechelt says its members caught the Atlantic salmon while fishing for pink salmon on Sunday.
A news release from the band says the fish weighed between three and 4.5 kilograms, one was male and the two females had developing eggs.
Band officials say there's a high probability all three escaped Aug. 19 when a pen containing 305,000 salmon collapsed in U.S. waters about 150 kilometres to the south at a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada has confirmed one Atlantic salmon was caught off southwestern Vancouver Island on Saturday and officials were checking reports that two more of the non-native species were hooked off Sooke and Esquimalt.
Sishalh Chief Warren Paull says the First Nation does not support the farming of non-indigenous salmonid species within its territory and the question is not if, but when Atlantic salmon will enter B.C. streams.
(The Canadian Press, AP, CFAX)

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