After one of the largest fish-farm escapes in history, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved a permit for Cooke Aquaculture to rear another 1 million Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound.

(CN) - Puget Sound's Saratoga Passage and Skagit Bay are not within the Suquamish Tribe's historical fishing grounds in Washington state, the 9th Circuit ruled, upholding a ruling for the Upper Skagit ...

SEATTLE -- Forget fishing for salmon. Puget Sound crab pots are so passé. Squid is in. For the first time in a couple decades, officials have tested squid in Puget Sound for metals and other ...

NEAR OLYMPIA, Wash. -- More than 40 scientists in U.S. and Canadian waters are catching batches of young salmon to find out why they can be so healthy in the rivers but begin to die off in Puget Sound ...

Washington state and federal wildlife officials, tribes and a nonprofit are using new tools in an intensive research project ...

Salmon fishing in the ocean off Washington is plugging along in unspectacular fashion, but Puget Sound anglers don't have to travel far to find fish. King salmon are being taken at decent rates from ...

90% of all seafood consumed in U.S. markets is imported, half of which is farmed through aquaculture, the process of raising and harvesting aquatic commercial products. The Puget Sound is home to four ...

For years, Atlantic salmon have been raised in floating net pens Cooke Aquaculture owns in Rich Passage off the south end of Bainbridge Island. Following a state ban on nonnative fish farming in 2018, ...

KINGSTON — State authorities allege that a man claiming membership in the Yakama Nation Indian Tribe was fishing illegally in Suquamish Tribe waters near Kingston in an unmarked boat and that a Yakama ...

SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash. – With a final check of their tanks and hoses, the divers raise their hands and signal the OK. Falling back into the murky, blue-green waters of Puget Sound they break the ...