Political Lobbying in DC with the Shellfish Industry

Listed below are people in the shellfish industry from the West coast who will be leaving for Washington DC to lobby congressman and agencies.  Included are attorneys Billy Plauche and Amanda Stock who are the attorneys-of-choice when the industry initiates- or threatens to initiate - legal action.  The political process is in full swing and the industry is spending a significant amount of money to ensure they get what they want, including a major expansion of geoduck farming in the tidelands, and mussel rafts in the waters of Puget Sound.  

Write or call your congressmen and senators and tell them there is more to Puget Sound than what the shellfish industry will be telling them it wants.

Margaret Barrette, ED, Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association

Connie Smith, PCSGA

Billy Plauche, Plauche & Stock, WA

Amanda Stock, Plauche & Stock, WA

Bill Dewey, Taylor Shellfish Farms, WA

Bill Taylor, Taylor Shellfish Farms, WA

John & Linda Lentz, Chelsea Farms, WA

Cairn Steele, Rock Point Oyster, WA

Dave Steele, Rock Point Oyster Co., WA

Ian Jefferds, Penn Cove Mussel Co, WA

others include:

Mark Wiegardt, Whiskey Creek Hatchery, OR (major oyster seed supplier to the industry)

Kevin & Nancy Lunny, Drakes Bay Oyster Co, CA (fighting to keep a commercial oyster in a national park - http://www.savepointreyeswilderness.org/ and  http://savedrakesbay.org/ - despite having purchesed it knowing their lease expired in 2012)

Greg Dale, Coast Seafoods, CA (owned by Pacific Seafood, one of the largest seafood companies in the US)

John Finger, Hog Island Oyster Co, CA