Our mission is to protect the habitat of Puget Sound tidelands from the underregulated expansion of new and intensive shellfish aquaculture methods. These methods were never anticipated when the Shoreline Management Act was passed. They are transforming the natural tideland ecosystems in Puget Sound and are resulting in a fractured shoreline habitat. In South Puget Sound much of this has been done with few if any meaningful shoreline permits and with limited public input. It is exactly what the Shoreline Management Act was intended to prevent.

Get involved and contact your elected officials to let them you do not support aquaculture's industrial transformation of Puget Sound's tidelands.

Governor Inslee:

Monday, April 4, 2011

Army Corps Seeks Public Comment

Taylor Shellfish geoduck farm on Totten Inlet, around 2007, found to be illegally planted on state owned tidelands.

The US Army Corps of Engineers seeks public comment on the possible installation of a new 2-acre Taylor Shellfish Farm in Totten Inlet. The ACOE has seen an increase in applications for geoduck farms and an increase in the size of the farms. Read the announcement in the Mason County Journal article. Comments on this farm are due April 14, 2011. Go to this ACOE site for information about how to submit comments and the email address of the project manager.
Posted by Protect Our Shoreline at 10:00 PM
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