I've been surprised at what big  national news this fish-farm breakdown is. Turns out ocean fish farming is rare!  WA is the only West Coast State that allows the farming of Atlantic salmon  --  it's banned in the others.  Alaska bans ALL fin-fish farming.

And it also turns out that WA counties have been trying to ban the practice locally for the past 5 years, but have been overruled by the State.  Here's a very interesting article from the WA State Assn of Counties:  http://wsac.org/atlantic-salmon-counties-asked-for-net-pen-ban-five-years-ago/  .  

So, until this week, nothing we did locally could have prevented Cooke's big new net pen farm.  This issue has to be worked entirely at the State government level.  I'm surprised by that;  I'm also thinking that this is the right moment to write to Mike, Kevin, and Steve, our local representatives in Olympia.  

It would have been nice to learn ANY of these facts from the PDN.  Don't your reporters have internet access?