Cooke Aquaculture representatives asked the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee to protect jobs and not listen to 'fear based on misinformation'

Workers showed up in Olympia, Washington, wearing rubber boots and work clothes

Canada's Cooke Aquaculture will dismantle an Atlantic salmon farm in the US state of Washington after losing its lease there, a state agency said

'We will use all means at our disposal to protect our ability to continue to operate at this farm site and to maintain these jobs,' the company says

Canadian company Cooke Aquaculture has lost the lease for an Atlantic salmon farm in Washington State, on the west coast of US

The state of Washington has ordered Cooke to pay $8,000 and to stop allowing pressure washing wastewater to enter Puget Sound

US-based NGO has filed a citizen suit against Cooke relating to the release of over 100,000 farmed salmon after the collapse of net pens owned by the Canadian company 

The new salmon farming operation that Cooke Aquaculture aims to set up in Washington's Juan de Fuca straight would include 14 circular net pens and be about 1.5 miles off shore

A report provided to Washington state regulators shows Cooke Aquaculture was having trouble at its Cypress Island salmon farm almost a month before a net pen collapsed

By Jason Smith

Cooke Aquaculture has offered 'in excess' of $`1.5 million to several groups belonging to Washington State's Coast Salish tribes that helped respond to a recent salmon escape