The Shellfish Industry's "Pests" of Puget Sound

[Update 4/21/14: The Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association has removed the "pest" document from their site. A copy of the "pest" document may be found here:
http://www.pacshell.org/pdf/PestsOfBivalveAquacultureWA_OR_2012.pdf]

The shellfish industry has released a document which details the species of Puget Sound which it considers "pests" to their tideland developments.  (click here for the complete document, funded by USDA)

A partial list of the species includes:

Cockles


Horse Clams


Goldeneye

Scoters


Starry Flounder


Petrale Sole


Sea Stars


Sand Dollars


Shiner Perch


Ghost Shrimp


Dungeness Crab


Red Rock Crab


Moon Snail


Japanese Eelgrass (shown with a limpet)
(Note:  Until 2011 Japanese eelgrass was considered a "priority habitat species" by Fish and Wildlife. Thanks in part to Bill Dewey with Taylor Shellfish helping to draft a letter for the Director of Fish and Wildlife, the Department of Ecology is now considering a permit which would allow for the spraying of the herbicide Imazamox in Willapa Bay.)