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 ...
DNR board to vote on future of net-pen fish farming in WA
A showdown is coming over net-pen aquaculture in Washington, with a state board poised to vote on whether to terminate the ...
Lewiston Tribune4 小时
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 ...
Courthouse News Service13 小时
Washington state bans commercial finfish net pen farms
The ban comes two years after the state rejected lease applications from a commercial net pen fish farmer and ordered it to ...
Animal Welfare Institute1 个月
Fish Farming and Aquaculture
Net-pen farming. Escapes of farmed fish, particularly salmon, from ocean net pens introduce non-native and often genetically modified species into the wild that disrupt native ecosystems and compete ...
MercoPress6 年
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 ...