Atlantic salmon escape

Every time I report on the Great Atlantic Salmon Escape of 2017, someone asks me the same question: Why don’t we just farm Pacific salmon species in Puget…

Atlantic salmon farming has been banned from Washington state waters. Gov. Jay Inslee signed the ban on non-native fish farms into law Thursday morning in…

The Canadian owner of an Atlantic salmon farm that collapsed last summer near Anacortes vows to use the North American Free Trade Agreement to save its…

The Washington House of Representatives has voted to phase out farming of non-native fish in state waters, drawing the end of Atlantic salmon farming in…

Washington state officials are looking at some new suspects in the collapse of an Atlantic salmon farm: sea creatures clogging the floating structure’s…

More trouble for the Canadian company that let 160,000 of its Atlantic salmon escape into Puget Sound this summer: Washington state officials announced…

Call it Puget Sound piracy.Thieves boarded a floating salmon farm a few saltwater miles from Anacortes on a Saturday night in September. In their wake,…