Taking Back Puget Sound
Dylan Tomine lays out the threat of Puget Sound’s net opens, the fight to get them out, and a bold new plan to take back …
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The Aquaculture Equivalent of a Virus
Cooke Aquaculture wants to use its fish farming pens off the southern coast of Bainbridge Island to raise rainbow trout. Officials with the Washington Department …
Let the Games Begin
It should come as no surprise that the NW Aquaculture Alliance is applauding the WDFW for approving Cooke Aquaculture’s permit to raise rainbow trout in …
All Waters Fly Fishing
Fly fishing Hood Canal.
Comments For New Recovery Plan For Puget Sound Wild Steelhead Due March 28
More whistling past the graveyard. A new proposed recovery plan for Puget Sound steelhead, says NOAA Fisheries, “highlights culverts and other threats, and outlines a …
Puget Sound Salmon Do Drugs
Anti-depressants. Diabetes drugs. High-blood-pressure medication. Puget Sound chinook are doing our drugs, and it may be hurting them, new research shows. The metabolic disturbance evident …
Beach Day
To a fly fisherman, November on Washington’s Puget Sound means two things: Sea Run Cutthroat and Salmon. ‘Beach Day’ captures Casey Underwood’s pursuit of both …
Cooke Aquaculture inspection finds problems at 2 other Atlantic salmon pens
The hits keep coming for Cooke Aquaculture. Deficiencies have been found at Cooke Aquaculture’s Atlantic salmon net pens in Puget Sound by an independent inspector, …
Study says predators may play major role in chinook salmon declines
A new study shows that increased populations of seals and sea lions are eating far more of Puget Sound’s threatened chinook than previously known, potentially …
Proposed Atlantic Salmon Net Pen Threatens Puget Sound Wild Salmon
Open water Atlantic salmon farms pose an unacceptable health risk to ESA-listed wild salmon and steelhead in Puget Sound. They pollute the nearby ecosystem, and …