Giant tanks, looking as if they were spawned from a liaison between a hot tub and an ice-breaker, could be the answer to escapes of farmed salmon.

The provincial and federal governments want to explore closed containment tanks for salmon farms, but so far, research has failed to find any viable, cost-effective closed system.

As runs of wild salmon shrink, there are increasing fears that farms in critical wild salmon areas will push wild populations to extinction. Conservation groups say the escape this week of 30,000 Atlantic salmon from a Marine Harvest Canada farm north of Campbell River means more farm fish will ...Continued@URL... http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolon...f34&k=28704