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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock The escape of thousands of salmon from an open-pen fish farm has endangered the wild salmon population in ...

Last year, Washington officials ended commercial fish farming in state waters — in the long wake of a massive spill of nonnative Atlantic salmon into the Salish Sea, the inland marine waters of ...

WASHINGTON, USA — 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 ...

A showdown is coming over net-pen aquaculture in Washington, with a state board poised to vote on whether to terminate the industry. The Board of Natural Resources on Tuesday will consider a rule ...

Tesco has suspended its use of a fish farm in the north-west Highlands following allegations salmon infested with sea lice were left in a pen that was meant to be completely empty. Animal Equality UK ...

The New York Times' recent article on salmon aquaculture ("The Salmon on Your Plate Has a Troubling Cost. These Farms Offer Hope.") gets several facts wrong and includes multiple misrepresentations ...

President Donald Trump’s first-term push to open the Gulf of Mexico and other federal waters to fish farming has come to a halt in the early days of his second term. A federal judge in Washington ...