Show ’ : '£££$&:£ Standing bn floating net pensworkers : tix- watch intently through underwater cam- eras speeding the feeding rate when the - !i of Mlmals'f: Seals and sea Iiohs Woke ' count:!:ffv'’Splants caus trillions of dollars in losses and made every feed pellet Meanwhile1 stricter inew environmental'' regulations have slowed federal and - through the nets to prey on m ' if fish allowing? millions of Atlantic salmon tp escape: Biologists feared Jv’the captive jg i -'- V-- y$r vjiiv S- - ®vvv ji ‘i ’ 'You’re playing them like' a piiiho”said '£ Rocky Boschman manager of Stolt Sea 'i Farm Inez’s Humphrey Rock facility “This business is not’ for the faint of Dale Biackbumvicepresidehtj Established ruiis' of Atlantic were reported in twpriversV heart'’-Sai- d “It vi iv for West Coast operations for Stilt Sea ulV-'-U'- : v’ ' 'SvvV "wedo” ' : : V 'l top four in the world It isowned by i: British Columbia has some 83 salmon : farms rotating through i23 sites nearly all of them around the remote western end of Vancouver Island They produced 70000 metric tons of salmon in 2002 80 percent of it exported to the United States When British Columbia lifted a seven- year moratorium on new aquaculture sites - mom-and-p- ' Stolt-- : Nielsen SA a Luxumbburg-base- d corpo- - ration with shipping and other interests v Salmon farms in British Columbia began in the 1970s as operations dotted around coastal inlets When USy'-wild salmonruns crashed in the early 1990s international conglomerates control- ling the industry filled the gap Salmon op was questioned by scientists'! who feared it concentrated contaminants '! Clockwise from top: PCBs and depleted - : a worker pulls Atlantic salmon such as cancer-causin- g along the the Oceans of prey for wild fish A lawsuit processingiine at the Engle- in Washington forced grocery stores to wood Packing Co plant in Beaver Cove label farmed fish as containing a dye given 'Nov 4 2003 on Vancouver Island BC jiyv ‘ Canada through the feedto turn the flesh pink with- ’ British Columbia has more than 8Q salmon out crustaceans in the natural diet farms rotating through morq than 100 sitesDissatisfied with government regulation : nearly all of them around the remote west- em end of Vancouver Island A detail view of an Atlantic saimon : state-of-the-- z 1 ' "V-!- jV "fi r |