Cooke Aquaculture

Aquaculture Group Applauds Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for Fish Farm Proposal

October 4, 2019 Northwest Aquaculture Alliance

The Northwest Aquaculture Alliance applauded the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) proposal to issue a five-year Marine Aquaculture Permit to Cooke Aquaculture Pacific, LLC to grow rainbow trout (steelhead) in its existing commercial marine net pens in Puget Sound. …

1,000 Farm-Raised Salmon Escape From Canadian Pen, Some Captured At New Brunswick Dam

September 16, 2019 John Holyoke, Bangor Daily News

Researchers for the Atlantic Salmon Federation have captured and removed 53 Atlantic salmon from a New Brunswick river after an estimated 1,000 of the farm-raised fish escaped from a Cooke Aquaculture facility near Deer Island in the Bay of Fundy. …

Cooke Aquaculture Now Wants to Farm Steelhead

August 6, 2019 Hannah Weinberger, Crosscut

Cooke Aquaculture is exploring something that has put environmental activists on alert: the possibility of transitioning its remaining net pens to farm native steelhead trout. …

Cooke Aquaculture named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies Fourteen Years in a Row

March 7, 2019 Cooke Aquaculture Inc.

For the fourteenth year in a row, family-owned and operated Cooke Aquaculture Inc. is a 2019 winner of the Canada’s Best Managed Companies Platinum Club designation, having retained its Best Managed designation for seven consecutive years or more. …