Washington State Cancels Cooke Aquaculture Pacific Lease for Site of Net Collapse
SEAFOODNEWS [Associated Press] - February 5, 2018
Washington state officials on Sunday cancelled a lease with Cooke Aquaculture Pacific at the site where net pens holding farmed Atlantic salmon collapsed last summer, releasing thousands of non-native fish into Puget Sound.
The decision comes days after a multi-agency state investigation found the Canada-based company negligent for failing to adequately clean its nets, saying that directly contributed to the net-pen failure in August at the facility.
The report released Tuesday said ...
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