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 31, 2012

Taylor Shellfish Withdraws Lockhart Water Quality Certification Application

Taylor Shellfish has withdrawn its Water Quality Certification application for the "Lockhart" geoduck farm, located in the tidelands in front of 9000 Libby Road, in Henderson Inlet.  Instead they will focus first on trying to obtain the county Shoreline Substantial Development permit which Taylor and Arcadia Point Seafood had originally discussed in 2009.

In early 2010, believing no permit should be required, Taylor and Arcadia appealed and eventually lost in Superior Court.  Their actions delayed the process for almost 2 years.  (See November 1, 2011 post for the Superior Court decision denying their appeal.)

Perhaps Taylor Shellfish is hoping NOAA and the Governor's Shellfish Initiative will have fewer conditions next time they apply.
Posted by Protect Our Shoreline at 4:54 PM

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