The ban was proposed due to the fallout of the 2017 Cypress Island net pen collapse, which released 250,000 non-native ...
More than 80% of public comments received by the Department of Natural Resources before Tuesday's hearing supported the ban, ...
The ban comes two years after the state rejected lease applications from a commercial net pen fish farmer and ordered it to ...
In the waters around New Zealand - as many countries - animals including sea birds, dolphins, penguins and sea lions are routinely ending up in commercial fishing nets along with the intended catch.