90% of all seafood consumed in U.S. markets is imported, half of which is farmed through aquaculture, the process of raising and harvesting aquatic commercial products.
The Puget Sound is home to four such facilities that farm steelhead trout in underwater pens which environmentalists claim endanger native species. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , in an analysis of those aquaculture facilities, claims they are not likely to be the single cause of the extinction of Chinook salmon.
Cooke’s leases on four pens in Skagit Bay, Clam Bay, Fort Ward, and Orchard Rocks, five-year leases issued between 2020 and 2021, have withstood recent challenges in the Washington State Supreme Court. In January, the court handed down a unanimous ruling upholding the permits through a challenge by environmental groups including the Wild Fish Conservancy.— risk analysis of aquaculture’s impact on native, threatened, or endangered species — in the assessment of Cooke’s leases through the EPA.
The opinion analyzed a number of potential impacts the pens could have on native species, largely concluding that the farmed fish will “adversely impact” native species and habitat, with the clarification that the pens alone are not likely to bring endangered species such as Chinook salmon to extinction.
In clarifying the discrepancies between how the two organizations have interpreted the opinion, NOAA spokesperson Michael Milstein told MyNorthwest:
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