text: Information about "unusually" high tides and currents in our local waters can be easily found in any of a number of tide and current tables available on-line, published in tide books, or even in the yearly tide guides that are available (frequently free of charge) at local sporting goods stores, marine hardware stores, or any place that sells fishing tackle. The tides on August 20th were not unexpected. Historic tide levels (highs and lows) and maximum current speeds (ebbs and floods) are also available for specific areas, such as where this net-pen is placed off of Cypress Island. I suggest that the people promoting salmon net-pens at DFW and Cooke Aquaculture spend more time (like most Northwest-based crabbers, recreational and commercial fishermen, and recreational boaters do) researching the predictable tide/current conditions before placing net-pens. I wonder if the proposed salmon net-pen site outside of Port Angeles has been researched as well as the Cypress Island site was?