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:

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Superior Court Transcript Denying Taylor/Arcadia Petition

A transcript detailing why the Thurston County Superior Court denied the petition from Taylor Shellfish and Arcadia Point Seafood is found here:  http://www.caseinlet.org/uploads/taylor_10-21-11.pdf

In clear logic it affirms Thurston County's decision to require a Shoreline Substantial Development Permit for the proposed Thiesen/McClure/Lockhart geoduck farms based on the fact that the PVC tubes and netting are a structure, therefor a development. 

The task of ensuring Puget Sound's most critical habitat - the intertidal tideland area - will be regulated as the Shoreline Management Act intended has taken a great step forward. 
Posted by Protect Our Shoreline at 8:10 PM

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