{"id":432019,"date":"2026-05-17T12:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/432019\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T12:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:57:19","slug":"salmon-escapees-not-free-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/432019\/","title":{"rendered":"Salmon escapees not free long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-odt-landscape-large-4-3\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/om15salmonescape_0.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"512\" alt=\"Anglers line the Ohau C canal after a breakout from a commercial salmon farm recently. PHOTO:...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anglers line the Ohau C canal after a breakout from a commercial salmon farm recently. PHOTO: SUPPLIED&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Anglers in the Mackenzie district were out in force after &#8220;a few hundred&#8221; salmon escaped from a commercial farm.<\/p>\n<p>They flooded into the Ohau Canal, just south of Twizel, earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Mt Cook Alpine Salmon aquaculture general manager Jaco Swart said the salmon escaped and became free game for local anglers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of our salmon farm nets developed a small tear during the winching process that lifted the net for the salmon to be harvested last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A few hundred salmon escaped into the Ohau B\/C canal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s unusual and unfortunate for us but a boost for those fishing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Escapes were uncommon as the salmon farm used underwater camera drones to check the nets weekly.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Swart said the net has now been fixed and the company has added more checks to the winching procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anglers line the Ohau C canal after a breakout from a commercial salmon farm recently. PHOTO: SUPPLIED&#13; Anglers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-432019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}