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, January 24, 2012

Step Children of the Shellfish Initiative

Grays Harbor County and Pacific County shellfish companies seem to be considered the step children in Washington's Shellfish Initiative. The Governor's policy advisor telling them "The basic information (from the Shellfish Initiative) is of use on the coast" doesn't seem to make up for the fact that none of the $4.5 million dollars being spent is available to them.  The industry being the largest employer in Pacific County and recreational razor clams bringing $22 million to the coast seems not so important now.
http://thedailyworld.com/sections/news/local/governor%E2%80%99s-shellfish-initiative-ignores-coast.html
Posted by Protect Our Shoreline at 4:32 PM

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