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Washington Supreme Court sides with Cooke, upholds fish-farm permit

January 14, 2022 โ€” The Washington Supreme Court has sided with Cooke Aquaculture in a unanimous 9-0 ruling that upholds the companyโ€™s fish farming permits in the state.

The lawsuit has its origins in a five-year permit that the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) granted to Cooke in January 2020, allowing the company to farm steelhead trout in Puget Sound and the Salish Sea. Soon after the permit was granted, a consortium of conservation and environmental groups including the Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC) filed a lawsuit challenging the permit, claiming the department was allowing the farms without fulling considering what the impacts would be on water quality in the surrounding areas.

Read the full story at SeafoodSource

 

Native American leader that pushed Washington aquaculture development dies in car wreck

April 26, 2021 โ€” Washington stateโ€™s Kurt Grinnell, a Jamestown Sโ€™Klallam Tribe council member for 16-plus years, died in a single-vehicle wreck Tuesday, April 20, on Mount Pleasant Road in Port Angeles.

Grinnell, 57, a Port Angeles resident, was the tribeโ€™s aquaculture manager and served on the tribeโ€™s hunting and fishing committee for 33 years after being elected to the council in October 2004, reported the local news site Sequim Gazette.

Grinnell was also CEO of Jamestown Seafood, which opened in 2016 and harvests oysters and geoduck and produces oyster seed for commercial sale.

He had previously worked on projects with Canadian salmon giant Cooke that included a joint venture with the Jamestown Sโ€™Klallam Tribe to produce sterile all-female native steelhead trout at a defunct Cooke salmon pen.

Read the full story at IntraFish

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