Sierra Club Calls on Governor Inslee to Roll Back the Shellfish Initiative

Click here to join with the Sierra Club to tell Governor Inslee the shellfish initiative's transformation of Puget Sound's intertidal habitat area is not in the statewide interest. Get involved.  The shellfish industry is.

 

Speak up to Protect Shorelines and Wildlife

from Unlimited Expansion of Industrial Aquaculture

 

PVC pipes for geoducks shipped to China.

Plasticizing Puget Sound's intertidal area 

is not in the "state wide interest."

 

Join with the Sierra Club in calling on Governor Inslee to roll back the shellfish initiative before it results in the transformation of the intertidal habitat area into one populated with PVC pipes, grow-out bags and other structures used in the industrial production of shellfish. The shellfish initiative is not healthy for this fragile habitat area, unique to Puget Sound, and upon which a diversity of species depend on for survival.

Grow-out bags for non-native oysters.

Grow-out bags leave nothing

but scoured sediments when removed.

 

Get involved. The shellfish industry is generating millions of dollars in profits from growing geoducks shipped to China. They are using those profits for their attorneys, lobbyists and public relations firms to craft an image which will result in a permanent transformation of a habitat area unique to Washington's Puget Sound. It is what the Shoreline Management Act was intended to protect and is not in the statewide interest.

Governor Inslee and Taylor Shellfish

lobbyist Bill Dewey.

The things that money can buy.

 

 

Plastic pollution - Over 40,000 PVC pipes per acre are stomped into the beach for geoduck planting.