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This approach to salmon farming is already banned in California, Oregon, and Alaska, leaving British Columbia and Washington state as the last two holdouts.
Agriculture your username February 11, 2021 Wild Fish Conservancy filed a complaint on Wednesday in the Western District of Washington alleging that the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and its director, chair, vice, chair, and commission members violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) because it is “causing ‘take’” of threatened fish including Puget Sound steelhead, Washington’s state fish, Puget Sound Chinook salmon, and bull trout through its steelhead hatchery program. The program, known as the South Fork Skykomish River summer steelhead hatchery program, rel...