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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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Washington’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has banned the use of commercial net pens in state waters, but Washington scientists say the most up-to-date research was not considered when that ...

In this photo provided by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a crane and boats are anchored next to a collapsed net pen in Washington state in August 2017. This form of aquaculture ...

FILE - In this photo provided by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a crane and boats are anchored next to a collapsed "net pen" used by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific to farm Atlantic ...

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – With some of the last net pens floating behind her in Rich Passage, state Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz announced an executive order Friday morning to end net-pen ...