Washington state's public lands commissioner, Hilary Franz, on Friday announced an executive order to prohibit commercial finfish net pen aquaculture in state waters.
"Commissioner Franz's order will align Washington's net pen salmon aquaculture policy with policies already in place in Alaska, California and Oregon," says this news release.
This is just another self inflicted wound by Cooke, with a total failure to keep up the fence. Both Western Canada and the United States used to operate ranching on the open range system. Shown best locally on the Lummi Indian Reservation, one of the last "open ranges" in Western Washington thru the 1970's.. Then they started killing them with their automobile, and bought fences, killing off the open range system. Liabilty was put on the person who killed the cow with his auto. Cars were built by the ton, so if you hit a cow on an open range, you'd live thru it. Now the only thing ya hit in a car is wild, like a deer, an elk, or a moose, and people are killed in their Geo Metro's. The famous Western Painter Charles M. Russel painted "The Last of 5,000, Waiting for the Chinook." painting the open range and "Winter of the Blue Moon" in Blackfoot jargon in 1886-87, that system bankrupted Teddy Roosevelt, by overgrazing and then starvation. Next stop, ocean ranching and the genetically defective hatchery system, so eloquently explained on the open range, with overgrazing.
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