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:

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Post Hearing Briefs for Taylor Shellfish Mussel Farm in Totten Inlet are Submitted

The post-hearing briefs on Taylor Shellfish's proposed 58 raft mussel farm in Totten Inlet have been submitted to the Thurston County Hearing Examiner.  The permit decision will rest on whether Taylor Shellfish has satisfied its "burden of proof" requirement and proven the most pristine estuary in South Puget Sound, with waters categorized as "extraordinary", will not be degraded with the addition of 58 more rafts growing non-native mussels.  Among other things, their testifying that dissolved oxygen levels within, below and around current mussel farms - and by extension the proposed farm - fall to hypoxic levels is a self-inflicted "burden" they did not overcome.

APHETI Post Hearing Brief:  (click here)
Taylor Shellfish Post Hearing Brief:  (click here)

One of Two Existing Taylor Mussel Farms in Totten Inlet
Which Causes Dissolved Oxygen Levels to Reach Hypoxic Levels 
(click to enlarge)
Posted by Protect Our Shoreline at 3:42 PM
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