Claim: Aquaculture company offered to pay tribe to stop complaining about net pens
Cooke Aquaculture — the company responsible for the estimated 105,000 farmed Atlantic salmon that spilled out of a ripped net off the coast of Washington this summer — offered to pay the Lummi Nation an extra $12 per fish if the tribe would not push for the prohibition of net-pen aquaculture. “Your demand to keep quiet for… » Read More
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