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Salmon farm sues after state cancels its lease
PORT ANGELES, Wash. – Cooke Aquaculture Pacific is appealing after Washington state canceled a lease for one of its farmed salmon operations in Port Angeles.
Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz ended the company’s net pen lease last month saying it had violated the terms. The farm holds nearly 700,000 salmon.
The company’s net pens at another location, at Cypress Island, collapsed in August and released thousands of non-native Atlantic salmon into Puget Sound.
Cooke says it was not in default at the Port Angeles site and that agency had no basis to terminate the lease. It sued Thursday in Clallam County Superior Court.
Read more: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/jan/05/salmon-farm-sues-after-state-cancels-its-lease/
