For immediate release.March 22nd, 2018 Today, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed HB2957 into law, an act that will effectively ban the practice of open-water Atlantic
In a newly published paper, scientists form WFC, Raincoast Conservation Foundation, and the University of Montana propose an alternative ‘place-based’ framework for certifying wild salmon that recognizes the ecological connection between wild salmon and the natal watersheds to which they are locally adapted.
WFC restates concern and findings of an exotic virus found in escaped farmed Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound after WA Fish and Wildlife attempted to mischaracterized and downplay the virus they failed to detect.
ndependent lab results demonstrate that 100% of escaped Atlantic salmon tested were highly infected with Piscine Orthoreovirus (PRV), and that the strain of the virus is of Norwegian origin.
Following the catastrophic collapse of a net pen in Puget Sound that released hundreds of thousands of farmed fish, Wild Fish Conservancy notifies Cooke Aquaculture of our intent to sue over Clean Water Act violations.
On May 3, 2017 the U.S. District Court Judge Salvador Mendoza Jr. issued a judgment and ordered an injunction of the federal fish hatchery at Leavenworth, WA, after ruling in
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.
