Atlantic Salmon Net Pens Don’t Belong in Puget Sound
In the wake of a large escapement of Atlantic salmon that occurred in the Deepwater Bay off of Cypress Island, Washington State faces a major …
In the wake of a large escapement of Atlantic salmon that occurred in the Deepwater Bay off of Cypress Island, Washington State faces a major …
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 …
It’s no surprise to see high numbers of Chinook and Coho Salmon in Puget Sound off Seattle, but a catastrophic failure of a large aquaculture …
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has an up-to-the-moment online map where nearly 1,600 catches of escaped Atlantic salmon had been logged as of …
Perhaps the folks at the WDFW should ask their colleagues over at the Department of Ecology not to authorize any more permits for salmon net …
Let’s hope this turns into a permanent ban. Gov. Jay Inslee has directed the Washington Department of Ecology to put on hold any new permits for …
Last weekend thousands of farmed Atlantic salmon escaped into Washington waters between Anacortes and the San Juan Islands. Local tribes and environmental groups say this …
Sea Shepherd Conservation biologist Alexandra Morton and Hereditary chief George Quocksister discover wild fish trapped in Marine Harvest farmed salmon pens off the coast of …
Much like terrestrial animal farms, fish farms are incubators for disease. When diseases and parasites from wild populations get into the farmed ones, they can …
New research by an international group of fishery scientists has detected a nasty heart disease, first identified in Norway, on a British Columbia fish farm …