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Cooke Granted Preliminary Injunction for Safe Harvest and Equipment Removal of Washington State Steelhead Trout Farms

January 13, 2023 Cooke

The Superior Court of the State of Washington granted the motion filed by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific, LLC (“Cooke”) against the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (“DNR”) and Hilary Franz, the Commissioner of Public Lands, to extend the deadline to April 14, 2023, to safely harvest steelhead trout and remove equipment at the Rich Passage and Hope Island fish farms in Puget Sound. …

Land-based Gold River Aquafarms Project Could Provide up to 100 jobs in Vancouver

September 27, 2021 SEAN FEAGAN, Parksville Qualicum Beach News

A company working to establish a land-based steelhead aquaculture facility in Gold River has a site and backers for its operation, but is still waiting on regulatory approval to launch. …

Cooke Aquaculture Applies to Modify Permits For Steelhead Farming in Puget Sound

April 22, 2020 Bainbridge Island Review

Cooke Aquaculture wants to use its fish farming pens off the southern coast of Bainbridge Island to raise rainbow trout, officials with the Washington Department of Ecology said Tuesday, and has submitted applications to the state requesting modifications to its existing water quality permits for its Bainbridge operation and three other net pens in Puget Sound. …

Hudson-Based Fishery Champions Sustainable New York Steelhead

January 27, 2020 Anne Pyburn Craig, Chronogram

Thanks to a science-minded gentleman farmer named John Ng, Hudson Valley Fisheries in Hudson supplies 15,000 to 20,000 pounds of fresh, local steelhead a week to restaurant kitchens and grocers on the East Coast. In June, at full capacity, that quantity will grow to 40-50,000 pounds weekly. …

Cooke Aquaculture Now Wants to Farm Steelhead

August 6, 2019 Hannah Weinberger, Crosscut

Cooke Aquaculture is exploring something that has put environmental activists on alert: the possibility of transitioning its remaining net pens to farm native steelhead trout. …