Seafood firm offers bounty to catch 27,000 escaped salmon off Norway

Mowi to give fishers 36 per fish after loss from farm in what campaigners say is a disaster for wild salmon'

The global seafood company Mowi is offering a bounty to fishers who catch escaped salmon after an estimated 27,000 fish went missing from a farm off the Norwegian coast in what campaigners said was a disaster for wild salmon".

The world's largest farmed salmon producer is offering a reward of 500 kroner (36) per salmon caught after it said a quarter of its 105,000 salmon population escaped from a cage in Troms, north-west Norway.