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 ...

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 ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County commissioners heard about proposed restrictions on fish farming as they moved closer to a shoreline master program update that creates a method for evaluating net pen ...

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 ...

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 ...