BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — With some of the last net pens floating behind her in Rich Passage, state Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz announced an executive order Friday morning to end commercial ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The latest Great Lakes Fishing Decree has taken effect, and its guidelines for certain Great Lakes fisheries in Michigan will be in place for the next 24 years. The decree was ...

For millennia, the lands and waters of Washington have sustained our peoples, cultures and traditions. Our rivers, bays and coastlines are sacred places of abundance, providing salmon and other marine ...

A ban on commercial net pen fish farming passed through the state Board of Natural Resources on Tuesday morning. This means "Commercial finfish net pen aquaculture" (CFNPA) operations will not be ...

Commercial net-pen aquaculture is history in Washington. The state Board of Natural Resources on Tuesday adopted a rule banning the industry. The ban is a victory for outgoing Commissioner of Public ...