KGMI News
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – Escaped farmed Atlantic salmon are still being caught up river on the Skagit.
The Seattle Times reports Upper Skagit tribal fisherman caught some of the fish Tuesday.
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officials inspected the fish and said they were healthy, but emaciated.
300,000 of the farmed fish were released into Puget Sound last August when a net pen collapsed at Cooke Aquaculture’s Cypress Island facility.
Cooke was denied a request on April 14th to re- introduce 800,000 juvenile salmon into its two undamaged net pens on Cypress Island while it appeals the state’s termination of its net pen lease.