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Video shot at the Sonora Point salmon farm appears to show large numbers of wild fish inside the pens used to grow Atlantic salmon.

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society posted footage shot by Hereditary Chief George Quocksister Jr. of the Laichwiltach Nation at a fish farm owned by Marine Harvest.

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In the video, a farm worker can be heard saying the pen is empty, while the footage shows large numbers of fish swirling just beneath the surface of the water. Underwater footage appears to show several species of fish that may have entered the pen through the netting.

“I went pen to pen up there and I thought there were maybe seven tonnes of fish in that one,” said Quocksister. “But there are all kinds of pens like that.”

Quocksister visited several farms in August to shoot video and check for disease at farms throughout the Broughton Archipelago.

He believes Marine Harvest maybe using the fish as natural feed for farmed fish.