BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — With some of the last net pens floating behind her in Rich Passage, state Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz announced an executive order Friday morning to end net-pen ...

A decision announced Friday could bring an end to controversial net pen fish farms in Washington waters. State lands commissioner Hilary Franz said the Department of Natural Resources will no longer ...

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 ...

Fingerling trout and steelhead grow to larger sizes very quickly in Lake Erie. The recent rains have signaled the Lake Erie steelhead and other trout species to return to their winter home to the five ...

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 ...

FILE - In this photo provided by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a crane and boats are anchored next to a collapsed "net pen" used by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific to farm Atlantic ...