I would add that sometimes the new technology we try doesn't work. In this particular case there was a failure with the new technology. All of the prototype testing that was done for that technology looked good. The salmon farming company obtained insurance and did their due diligence. Everybody did a lot of background work before they put the fish on that site, and it failed fairly early. It was a good thing for the farmer because he hadn't invested a lot in the ocean. I also truly believe those escapes represented absolutely no risk to the wild population.
New technology is not always going to work the way you want it to work. That goes with closed containment. We have had several past experiences with very large-scale closed containment developments. One of the biggest ones in Atlantic Canada was a company in Cape Breton. They really wanted to make a tank-based salmon farming operation go economically, because of the rough environmental conditions there. A lot of government money was put into that project, and a lot of investor money--many millions of dollars. You can go today and probably look at those tanks. That technology did not work.