The ban was proposed due to the fallout of the 2017 Cypress Island net pen collapse, which released 250,000 non-native Atlantic salmon into the Puget Sound.

Commercial net pen aquaculture has been in the Puget Sound since the ‘60s, according to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Net pens are used to grow native and non ...

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Washington State Department of Natural Resources AP file Following the failure of the net pen near Cypress Island, legislation was passed in 2018 to phase out Atlantic salmon by 2022.