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Salmon-spilling company ends fight to resume farming at Puget Sound sites (KUOW)

Finally. Thanks to everyone all over the Sound that worked so hard to end this bad business.


The company behind a massive spill of Atlantic salmon in 2017 has thrown in the towel on its efforts to keep farming fish at two sites in Puget Sound.

Cooke Aquaculture withdrew its appeal Friday of a 2022 Washington Department of Natural Resources order to shut down its floating farms off Bainbridge Island, just west of Seattle, and Hope Island in Skagit County.

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