For more than a century, fisheries managers have tried to replace the dramatic loss of wild salmon and steelhead with manufactured hatchery fish. But now
Wild Fish Conservancy filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for Oregon, seeking a court order prohibiting the NOAA Fisheries from disbursing any funding for the operation of ten federal Mitchell Act hatchery programs in the lower Columbia River.
A lawsuit challenging federal agencies continued dismissal of the harmful effects of commercial net pen aquaculture to threatened and endangered species in Puget Sound
Wild Fish Conservancy and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) have settled the lawsuit filed by the Conservancy March 31, 2014 seeking Endangered Species Act (ESA) compliance for WDFW’s “Chambers Creek” hatchery winter steelhead programs.
