Did the Solar Eclipse Cause Farmed Salmon to Stage a Massive Jailbreak?

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By AzulaAug 28, 2017, 8:37 am70 pts
By Katherine Ripley O n Aug. 19, around 4 p.m., 5,000 salmon escaped from Cooke Aquaculture, an aquaculture farm in the Puget Sound in Washington. There have been some anecdotal accounts of animals behaving strangely in response to the solar eclipse that happened on Aug. 21. Could this salmon jailbreak have…

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