WA bans commercial net-pen fish farming
More than 80% of public comments received by the Department of Natural Resources before Tuesday's hearing supported the ban, ...
Washington bans commercial net pen fish farming after 2017 disaster
The ban was proposed due to the fallout of the 2017 Cypress Island net pen collapse, which released 250,000 non-native ...
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Washington state phases out Atlantic salmon farming following the collapse of a marine net-pen
Atlantic salmon sea net-pen farming has been targeted after some 263,000 invasive Atlantic salmon escaped last year when a marine net pen collapsed. After a lengthy debate, Washington State ...
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Washington bans commercial net-pen fish farming
The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe supported net-pen farming as an important economic opportunity because fishing has become so diminished as an industry. Maria Smithson, representing Salish Fish, the ...