Originally Posted By: Carcassman
I am curious as to how this will affect net pens run by the State and Tribes. The pollution, food, and disease aspects are the same but perhaps on a smaller scale. Plus, the State and Tribes use fish that can easily stray and hybridize with native species; something the Atlantic Salmon were way less successful at.


Excellent point C'man. I think the negative issues with the Cooke fish farms was way over blown beyond actual deliterious impacts, but the natural environment is better off without them. As for the state and tribal net pens located in South Sound, the state wrote off wild salmon production in favor of hatchery production in south Puget Sound in the 1960s, and nothing has really changed in that regard.