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Selling fresh salmon from a farm built in a factory in New York

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Coho salmon at LocalCoho in Auburn, N.Y., Oct. 10, 2023. Most farmed salmon is flown in from abroad Ñ land-based salmon farms are able to supply fresh fish locally within a day or two or harvest. (Amrita Stuetzle/The New York Times)

Coho salmon at LocalCoho in Auburn, New York. The business is one of the US' few sustainable salmon farms.

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Imagine starting a praiseworthy business of breeding salmon as a sustainable food source not at sea but on land in an old factory building.

This is what an enterprising US business is doing as it seeks to deliver the popular seafood to diners fresh from a former factory building on the industrial edges of Auburn, a small city in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

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