WA will not renew leases for Puget Sound fish farms, 5 years after spill

WA will not renew leases for Puget Sound fish farms, 5 years after spill

Source: Seattle Times

11/14/2022

Credit: Alan Berner / The Seattle Times

No more Cooke Aquaculture fish farms in Puget Sound.

That’s the message the state Department of Natural Resources delivered Monday morning when the agency decided not to renew the last of the fish-farming company’s leases on net pens here.

The company’s last net pens in Puget Sound are located in Rich Passage near Bainbridge Island and Hope Island in Skagit Bay. Cooke has until Dec. 14 to wrap up steelhead farming and begin deconstructing their equipment, according to DNR officials.

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