Your Action is Needed Now!

Cooke Aquaculture continues their relentless campaign to expand and extend net pen aquaculture in the Salish Sea and avoid the 2022 phase out of their facilities.
Cooke Aquaculture continues their relentless campaign to expand and extend net pen aquaculture in the Salish Sea and avoid the 2022 phase out of their facilities. Wild Fish Conservancy is leading the effort to end this folly once and for all.

There are real and meaningful actions for you to take.

The Department of Ecology is currently seeking public input on the company’s recent application to modify existing water quality permits, authorization required under the Clean Water Act before Cooke can begin farming a highly-domesticated, partially-sterile form of steelhead in their Puget sound net pens.

Here is your action:
  • We need your help to ensure the serious pollution and water quality risks posed by this industry are fully considered by Ecology during this permitting process.
  • The link to the comment page, and talking points found here.

Please take 10 minutes to do this. Your input clearly matters.

Comments are due 8 June 2020.

There are *NO* words to express the frustration that we all feel that we are still grappling with this. But as we learned from the Elwha, meaningful positive change often takes *a LOT* longer than it should.

DON'T GIVE UP!

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