The Washington Department of Ecology fined Cooke Aquaculture on Wednesday for repeated water quality violations at its Atlantic salmon net pens in Washington state waters.

The violations include cleaning dirty equipment and discharging polluted wastewater into Puget Sound.

The company has to pay a fine of $8,000 (€6,754). There have been citizen complaints about Cooke not fixing violations near its Bainbridge Island dock since August 2016.