WILD FISH CONSERVANCY v. DEP'T OF FISH

No. 99263-1.

502 P.3d 359 (2022)

WILD FISH CONSERVANCY; Center for Food Safety; Center for Biological Diversity; and Friends of the Earth, Appellants, v. WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE, Respondent, and Cooke Aquaculture Pacific, LLC, Intervenor-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Washington.

Filed: January 13, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emma Bruden , Brian Alan Knutsen , Kampmeier & Knutsen, PLLC, 1300 Se Stark St., Ste. 202, Portland, OR, 97214-2471, Sophia Nicklason Ressler , Attorney at Law, 2400 Nw 80th St., #146, Seattle, WA, 98117, for Appellant(s).

Joseph Vincent Panesko , Noelle Lea Chung , Wash. State Attorney General's Office, P. O. Box 40100, Olympia, WA, 98504-0100, David Owen Bechtold , Attorney at Law, 1500 Sw 1st Ave., Ste. 985, Portland, OR, 97201-5823, Douglas John Steding , Lisa Joy Chaiet Rahman , Northwest Resource Law PLLC, 101 Yesler Way, Ste. 205, Seattle, WA, 98104-2595, for Respondent(s).

Lauren Patricia Rasmussen , Law Offices of Lauren P. Rasmussen PLLC, 1904 3rd Ave., Ste. 1030, Seattle, WA, 98101-1170, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe.

Thomas J. Young , Wash. State Attorney General's Office, Ecology Division, P. O. Box 40117, Olympia, WA, 98504-0117, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Wa. Department of Ecology.

Shana Emile , Christopher Douglass Eaton , Earthjustice, 810 3rd Ave., Ste. 610, Seattle, WA, 98104-1645, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Swinomish Indian Tribe Community.


¶ 1 This case involves a challenge brought under chapter 34.05 RCW, the Washington Administrative Procedure Act (APA), to a marine finfish aquaculture permit issued by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), allowing Cooke Aquaculture Pacific LLC to change fish species to commercially farm steelhead trout in Puget...

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