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Draft water quality permits for four Atlantic salmon net pen facilities
Laurie Niewolny – Water Quality ProgramPermit Lead and Aquaculture Specialist
Workshops and hearingsWednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 – Webinar 1:00 PM
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 – Anacortes, WA 6:00 PMThursday, Feb. 7, 2019 – Bainbridge Island, WA 6:00 PM
Public Hearing: Draft Water Quality Permits for Atlantic Salmon Net Pens
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Draft water quality permits for four Atlantic salmon net pen facilities
Laurie Niewolny – Water Quality ProgramPermit Lead and Aquaculture Specialist
Workshops and hearingsWednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 – Webinar 1:00 PM
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 – Anacortes, WA 6:00 PMThursday, Feb. 7, 2019 – Bainbridge Island, WA 6:00 PM
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Draft water quality permits for four Atlantic salmon net pen facilities
Laurie Niewolny – Water Quality ProgramPermit Lead and Aquaculture Specialist
Workshops and hearingsWednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 – Webinar 1:00 PM
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 – Anacortes, WA 6:00 PMThursday, Feb. 7, 2019 – Bainbridge Island, WA 6:00 PM
Agenda
• Presentation
• Information About How to Comment
• Questions and Answers
• Quick Break
• Formal Hearing
Presentation
• Overview
• Timeline
• Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture
• Four Facilities
• Permits
Overview
Permits Allow Ecology to Enforce Water Quality Rules
• Until the phase out of all non-native finfish marine net pens by 2022.
• Permits are needed for operate through the closures.
• Updated to have more monitoring and reporting from lessons learned in collapse.
Timeline
Timeline
April 2017
Cooke Aquaculture applies for NPDES permits for eight Atlantic salmon net pen facilities.
Timeline
August 2017
Net pen collapse at Cypress Island-Site 2
DNR drone image looking north August 28, 2017
Timeline
Early 2018
Legislature passed and governor signed House Bill 2957 prohibiting non-native marine finfish net pens.
Joint state agency investigation concluded.
We updated permits on four Atlantic Salmon net pen facilities operated by Cooke Aquaculture
Late 2018
Timeline
Next Steps: Spring-Summer 2019
Updated permits issued to operate and properly close Atlantic salmon net pen facilities.
Timeline
Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture
Atlantic Salmon Salmo salar
NOAA
Atlantic salmon aquaculture processFirst Transfer
Permit -fish health
documented
Ongoing fish health & drug use documentation, escape reports, inspections
Second Transfer Permit -
fish health documented
Hope Island - Site 4
The Seattle Times
Side view
Top view
Side view
Side view
Four FacilitiesFour Permits
One facility in Skagit Bay
Three facilities in
Rich Passage
Four Atlantic Salmon Net Pen Facilities operated byCooke Aquaculture Pacific, LLC
Seattle
Everett
La Conner
Hope Island -Site 4
Skagit Bay
Hope Island State Park
La Conner
May 2018
Swinomish Indian Tribal Community
Rich Passage
South end of Bainbridge Island
May 2018
Fort Ward-Saltwater II
Orchard Rocks-Saltwater IV
Clam Bay-Saltwater I
Water Quality Permits
Working Together
Fish & Wildlife-Fish Health
Ecology-Water Quality
Natural Resources-Aquatic Land Lease
LandownerRegulatory
NPDES National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System
U.S. EPA
NPDES Permits
Washington State
Department of
Ecology
Potential Pollutants
NPDES Permits
• Escaped fish• Feed• Feces• Antibiotics
Requirements• Plans for the Prevention, Response, and Reporting for
– Spills– Pollution – Escaped fish
• Operations and Maintenance Manual
NPDES Permits
Requirements• Monitoring / Assessments
– Biomass, feeding, and disease control chemical use– Sediment impacts from organic enrichment– Water column dissolved oxygen– Sea lice and fish mortality– Structural engineering– Net pen integrity
NPDES Permits
Requirements
• Reporting and Record Keeping– All the previous items– Changes– Violations
• Closure Plan and Monitoring
NPDES Permits
What is updated?
Permit Changes
Increased• Sediment monitoring• Underwater video and photographic surveys of
sediment and net pens
What is new?
Permit Changes
New• Late summer daily dissolved oxygen monitoring • Current velocity Doppler assessment• Engineering assessment within two years• Routine net inspections and cleaning
What is new?
Permit Changes
Improved• Response planning, training, and preparedness• Procedures for net care• Prevention of solid waste, debris, or wash water
entering the Sound
What is new?
Comment now until Feb. 25, 2019
QUESTIONS
PUBLIC HEARING
Rich DoengesSouthwest Region Section [email protected](360) 407-6271
Laurie NiewolnyPermit Lead and Aquaculture [email protected](360) 407-7666
KEY INFORMATION • Learn more about the permits and submit written comments:
https://ecology.wa.gov/netpenpermit
• Comments due by February 25, 2019 by 11:59PM.
• People to Contact