Aquaculture Group Supports Proposal for Cooke's Puget Sound Trout Operation
The Northwest Aquaculture Alliance (www.nwaquaculturealliance.org), applauded the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife proposal to issue a five-year Marine Aquaculture Permit to Cooke Aquaculture Pacific, LLC to grow rainbow trout (steelhead) in its existing commercial marine net pens in Puget Sound.
The WDFW proposal, issued October 1, would give Cooke a five-year permit to culture all-female triploid (non-fertile) rainbow trout—and much-needed certainty to continue operating in the state, the Alliance said in a press release...
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