April 2017: Cooke submits applications to renew their permits for all eight of their net pen facilities.

August 2017: A net pen owned by Cooke Aquaculture near Cypress Island in Skagit County failed and released Atlantic salmon into the surrounding waters.

August 2017: Gov Inslee directs agencies to put a hold on any new permits until investigation was complete.

January 2018: Dept. of Natural Resources, Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, and Ecology release the Cypress Island Atlantic Salmon Net Pen Failure Investigation and Review document. Ecology fines Cooke $332,00 for the net pen collapse.

January 2020: Washington state approves Cooke's change of species to Steelhead for the protection of native fish and wildlife.

January 2021: Washington state gives Cooke final approval to farm steelhead trout.

Nov: 2022: DNR, headed by Hilary Franz, issues executive order to ban netpen finfish farming in the state and tells Cooke the agency will not renew licenses for the company's remaining steelhead farms, ending the Canadian seafood giant's netpen farming operations in the state.

April 2023: DNR begins rule making process to implement netpen executive order as rule by filing a CR 101

October 2024: DNR files a CR 102 and the SEPA process is started

January 2025: : Board of Natural Resources votes to approve rule

Cooke Aquaculture forges ahead with trout farming plans in Washington state