A decision announced Friday could bring an end to controversial net pen fish farms in Washington waters. State lands commissioner Hilary Franz said the DNR will no longer issue leases, saying they’re a threat to the marine ecosystem.
State lands commissioner Hilary Franz said the Department of Natural Resources will no longer issue leases for the pens, saying they’re a threat to the marine ecosystem.
In 2017, a Cooke Aquaculture fish pen collapsed off Cypress Island, sending hundreds of thousands of non-native Atlantic salmon into the Salish Sea. The legislature phased out Atlantic salmon in Washington and Cooke Aquaculture switched to raising sterile steelhead trout.Aquaculture workers showed up to protest the announcement.
Aquaculture advocates say the Cypress Island collapse had no effect on native fish, and that the industry has worked with regulators to improve.Several other tribes support ending the pens.
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