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 ...

Norway-based cod farming company Ode said it has hit a new milestone in its efforts to farm cod in submersible pens. Ode has ...

Cooke Aquaculture was fined $332,000 for the negligent release of thousands of Atlantic salmon in August, the state Department of Ecology announced Tuesday. The department says Cooke violated its ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The debate about net pens has gone on for nearly a year, but the probability of installing such a facility in Jefferson County is slim, a county commissioner says. “You look at ...

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 ...

A bill that would allow coastal counties to ban marine aquaculture net pen facilities has an “uphill battle” ahead of it after a hearing in a state House of Representative committee in Olympia last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this photo provided by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a crane and boats are anchored next to a ...

(CN) — Aquatic wildlife conservationists are celebrating in the Pacific Northwest after Washington state Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz issued an executive order Friday ending commercial ...

PRINCETON-BY-THE-SEA — Fish could be jumping next year at Pillar Point Harbor because fishermen plan to install two net pens to help raise Chinook salmon and broaden their own fishing prospects close ...

If you live in Michigan or enjoy recreating on the Great Lakes, you’ve likely heard about the controversy on net-pen aquaculture. But if you haven’t, we worked with Jennifer McKay, the policy ...

UPDATED with comment on suggestion that the eclipse influenced tides. FISHING -- A week after wild fish activists announced a protest against net-pen fish farming in Puget Sound, the solar eclipse on ...

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – After a structural failure at Cooke Aquaculture’s Cypress Island fish farming facility last month, thousands of the site’s 305,000 non-native Atlantic salmon streamed out into ...