Farmers Say Bill to Phase Out Salmon Farming in Puget Sound Unfair
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seattle Times]by Lynda V. Mapes - January 10, 2018
In rubber boots and work clothes, Cooke Aquaculture Pacific employees from Atlantic salmon fish farms around Puget Sound packed a hearing in Olympia Tuesday on a bill that would shut down their industry.
“We do an excellent job raising fish in Puget Sound; we give it our all. We spend more time with these fish than we do our families; we love them and care for them,” Tom Glaspie, site manager of the Hope Island farm near Anacortes, said at an overflow public hearing convened by the Senate Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks Committee.
“I’ve got 18 employees underneath me; they have...
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