Court Upholds Termination of Cooke Aquaculture Net-Pen Lease
Some good news for Puget Sound. The termination of the lease for a fish-farming operation in Port Angeles Washington was upheld in Thurston County Superior …
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Mikael Frödin: fly fisherman and environmental activist
Mikael Frödin is a Swedish-born professional fly fisherman turned environmental activist. You may have seen him in the Patagonia film Artifishal, to highlight the dangers …
800,000 more farmed Atlantic salmon coming to Puget Sound
Nearly 1 million more Atlantic salmon are headed to Puget Sound, a year after a catastrophic fish escape caused by the same company that now …
Update On Wild Fish Conservancy Net Pen Litigation
A federal judge has denied motions filed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NOAA Fisheries Service, and by industry giant Cooke Aquaculture to dismiss all …
Bill McMillan: Escaped Atlantic Salmon threaten Washington’s Famed Skagit River
There are few people who know more about wild steelhead and salmon than Bill McMillan. He is a legend in the Pacific Northwest both for …
How Fisherman Are Faring In Washington Months After Salmon Spill
Last summer, more than 150,000 farmed Atlantic salmon spilled into Puget Sound off the coast of Washington, threatening the wild salmon population. Local fishermen scrambled …
Violations prompt Washington state to cancel Atlantic salmon farm lease
One less industrial feedlot in the waters off Washington’s coast, can the others be far behind? Cooke Aquaculture Pacific has lost the lease for its …
Escaped Atlantic salmon are being caught 40 miles up the Skagit River
More than three months after being released during the collapse of a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm near Cypress Island, Atlantic salmon are being caught about …
Washington bill banning Atlantic salmon farming
Under fire after a collapse and massive escape last summer, Atlantic salmon net-pen farming would be banned in Washington under legislation that will be filed …
Salmon advocates alarmed over massive new Newfoundland fish farm
Norway-based Greig Seafarms wants to build a massive open-pen salmon farm, with 7 million fish, in Placentia Bay, on the southeast coast of the island …