Cooke Gains Permission to Raise Rainbow Trout in Puget Sound
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) confirmed that it plans to issue a five-year marine aquaculture permit to the Canadian aquaculture company to farm …
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Industrial Fish Farms Threaten Puget Sound Once More
Prepare to take action. Cooke Aquaculture, Puget Sound’s industrial net-pen operator, is back with big plans to continue profiting at the expense of wild salmon, …
Omega Protein Defies Chesapeake Menhaden Harvest Cap
Omega Protein Corp, a subsidiary of Cooke Aquaculture says it plans to defy a quota the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries sets annually on the harvest …
Still recovering from escaped Atlantic salmon, Cooke Aquaculture now wants to farm steelhead
In August 2017, at least 263,000 farmed Atlantic salmon escaped from Cooke Aquaculture’s net pens at Washington’s Cypress Island into Washington state waters. The incident …
Cooke eyes raising steelhead instead of Atlantic salmon in WA state net pens
After their disastrous Atlantic salmon net pen implosion and the resulting termination of their net pen leases, Cooke Aquaculture has a new plan to continue …
Escaped Atlantic Salmon With Hollandaise?
Cooke Inc. is the same outfit who owned the net pen that detonated off Lummi Island releasing a few hundred thousand Atlantic salmon into Puget Sound. …
Contentious salmon stocking plan can’t happen without First Nations support
Is it just me or is it a tad ironic the Gleen Cooke of Cooke Aquaculture is part of a scheme to stock Atlantic salmon …
We Have All Been Here Before
For the second time, Cooke Aquaculture Pacific has destroyed 800,000 juvenile Atlantic salmon after testing required by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) …
New Genetic Research Shows the Legacy of Fish Farm Escapees
Let’s not forget the 250,000 fish that escaped from Cooke Aquaculture’s pens here in the state of Washington. Cooke put out the exact same damage …
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 …