The Washington state Department of Natural Resources said Monday it will not renew a fish-farming company’s last remaining leases on net pens in Puget Sound.
Department officials said Cooke Aquaculture has until Dec. 14 to finish steelhead farming and start deconstructing its equipment, The Seattle Times. Cooke’s pens are located in Rich Passage near Bainbridge Island and Hope Island in Skagit Bay.
The New Brunswick, Canada-based company vastly underreported the number of escaped fish, a state investigation found. The state Legislature in 2018 passed a law effectively phasing out net pen farming of exotic species in Washington waters. “Today, we are returning our waters to wild fish and natural habitat,” Hilary Franz, the state public lands commissioner, said in a statement. “Today, we are freeing Puget Sound of enclosed cages.”
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