Originally published Friday, August 30, 2013 at 9:35 PM
Dozens of fish treated with cancer-linked chemical stolen
Forty-two summer chinook were stolen from the Colville Reservation hatchery, which opened two months ago. Colville tribal officials say the fish are not safe to eat or handle because they were treated with a cancer-causing agent.
The Wenatchee World
BRIDGEPORT, Douglas County ? Two months after the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation opened the Chief Joseph Hatchery, thieves made off with dozens of summer chinook being held for broodstock.
Losing an estimated 42 adult fish that were ready to produce more than 73,000 young salmon for later release was bad enough.
But even worse, tribal officials are warning that those who took the fish have exposed themselves to a cancer-causing chemical.
The fish, in a broodstock pen below the hatchery, were treated with formalin and should not be handled or eaten, a notice posted on the Colville Tribes? website says...
