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Salmon Farm Impacts To Wild Juvenile Salmonids In The Puget Sound – ESA and Standing Implications

Wed Nov 11th, On Environmental Law, by

On November 4, 2015, the Wild Fish Conservancy on challenged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Marine Fisheries Service’s 2011 determination that Puget Sound commercial salmon farms are not likely to have any adverse effect on threatened fish including the Chinook salmon and steelhead trout under the Endangered Species Act. In 2012, there was a severe outbreak of an infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus, or IHNV, at commercial salmon farms […]

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