Driving a Car With the Rear View Mirror and Losing Your Social License

At the Senate Energy, Natural Resources and Marine Waters Committee Bill Dewey with Taylor Shellfish was asked where current shellfish farms are located in Puget Sound.  His answer, "That's an area that we are lacking."  This from an industry who touts their having been operating in Puget Sound's tidelands for over 100 years.  They don't know where their farms are but want to expand?  Expand where and onto what?

See how Connecticut has prioritized their information on shellfish farms and tidelands:
http://clear2.uconn.edu/shellfish/ Layers you can open are on the right side. Included are current shellfish farms, eel grass, tideland sediment types, wetlands, and sewage outfalls. Washington's shellfish farms? "That's an area we're lacking."

How can an industry go rushing to the Governor claiming they need to expand their operations when their awareness of their current location "is lacking"?  It's the equivalent of using the rear view mirror to drive your car.  It's in part why three top geoduck farmers were found to be trespassing on state lands, in one case for over a decade.  Paul Taylor's response in November of 2008 to the latter was "I never looked at the deed.."

Taylor Shellfish spokesman Bill Dewey's response more than 3 years later to where current farms are located?  "That's an area that we are lacking."

Before the Governor and the shellfish industry drive head-on into a wall promoting the need to expand, she and the agencies involved might consider that sound decision making requires basic and accurate information, like where current farms are located.  Like how many tidelands there are.  Like how many of those tidelands are private and how many are public.  And whether the public even supports expansion of an industry transforming the tidelands of Puget Sound. 

People lose their driver's license for driving with their rear view mirror.  A company's Social License can just as easily be lost.