["Lummi fishers were incensed at the Atlantic salmon intruding in home waters of native Washington Pacific salmon. “It’s a devastation,” said Ellie Kinley, whose family has fished Puget Sound for generations. “We don’t want those fish preying on our baby salmon. And we don’t want them getting up in the rivers.”]

I laughed out loud after I read this statement. An outfit which participates in the indiscriminate killing by gillnet of threatened/endangered NATIVE stocks of fish is worried about a few thousand non-native introduced fish which probably can't interbreed anyway and wouldn't know how to kill a native smolt even with a manual? Smells like the statement of someone looking for compensation for perceived damages indeed!

Cooke's excuses for the failure are pathetic BTW and I believe those net pens have no place in the puget sound. Raise the f'ers in giant land based pens. I know we have the technology.