freshwater rights are liquid gold and will be contested, especially for any "junior" right applications. Maybe the best option might be for saltwater facilities and some kind of a flow through process. Reducing or eliminating disease, food, and fecal waste will be issues but is should be doable. I just have a personal opposition to net pens in open water. The proposed move of the Port Angeles net pens, due to the US Navy pier construction inside Port Angeles harbor, to an area 1.5 miles off Green Point (East of Port Angeles) is going to place a 20% larger facility in an area of strong currents and, in my opinion, too close to marine vessel traffic picking up Puget Sound pilots that are taking vessels into or returning from inner Puget Sound. Any mechanical issue with a 900' freighter/tanker could create a huge problem.