Farmed fish are breaking out of their pens at an alarming rate

Grist: If you`re a child of the 90s, you might feel something like this when it comes to sea creatures escaping from captivity. But it`s now 2015, and we farm fish on the reg, so it`s time to grow up. Wired explains why: Aquaculture is fast becoming the main way that humans get their seafood fix. But fish aren’t cattle; they don’t turn passive when cooped up. Every year, hundreds of thousands of salmon, cod, and rainbow trout wriggle through damaged or defective cages and flee into the open seas, never......

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