Commercial net-pen aquaculture is history in Washington. The state Board of Natural Resources on Tuesday adopted a rule banning the industry. The ban is a victory for outgoing Commissioner of Public ...

PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners were flooded with public testimony on net pens, climate change and other parts of the draft shoreline plan Tuesday. Seventeen of 28 speakers objected to ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - A bill that would ban commercial net pens used for fish farms in Washington State is now being considered in Olympia. It comes after lastAugust's massive spill in the Puget Sound ...

Residents and anglers around several Eastern Washington lakes take great pride in boosting the trout fishing by tending net pens of trout to be released for anglers. The top net pen project in the ...

In 2017, an enclosed floating cage (known as a net pen) in the Puget Sound collapsed at its location near Cypress Island. The collapse resulted in the accidental release of over 250,000 Atlantic ...

PORT ANGELES — Net pen aquaculture is allowed as a conditional use in open waters under Clallam County’s draft Shoreline Master Program, commissioners were told. The proposed update is “a lot more ...

Oregon is the only West Coast state that still allows commercial fish farming with net pens in ocean and estuary waters. Under a bill introduced to a House committee Wednesday, the practice would be ...

Efforts to ban net pen fish farming in the Puget Sound have ramped up in the wake of the accidental release of thousands of non-native Atlantic salmon. On Saturday, a net pen belonging to Cooke ...

Olympia lawmakers voted to ban Atlantic salmon net pens from Puget Sound. Friday the state Senate approved the bill. It now goes to Governor Jay Inslee’s desk for his signature. Inslee spoke in favor ...

When more than 260,000 Atlantic salmon spilled from a failed net pen into Puget Sound, they carried a potentially devastating disease to native salmon species. Atlantic salmon are native to the ...