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.

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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Thurston County Board agrees: geoduck farms require SDP

Loose tubes from an unauthorized planting of geoduck tubes on state tideland on Henderson Inlet in Thurston County. Photo taken on 6/1/07. DNR required removal of tubes. This is in the near vicinity of the private tidelands in the case outlined below.

Taylor Shellfish Farms and Arcadia Point Seafood challenged the hearings examiner's January 21, 2011 decision that applications for geoduck farms now require a Substantial Development Permit to go forward. The Memorandum of the Decision of the Board of Thurston County Commmisioners finds agreement with the hearings examiner:

"The Board finds that the hearings examiner's detailed statutory interpretation of the term "development", as it applies to Appellants proposed geoduck operations, is consistent with the plain language of the Shoreline Management Act and Washington Administrative Code. The hearing examiner's interpretation also implements the fundamental policies of the SMA to fully protect our fragile shorelines."
Posted by Protect Our Shoreline at 5:34 PM
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