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:

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Diversity of Species in Puget Sound

Puget Sound's intertidal and subtidal habitats support an incredible diversity of species, seen in the galleries of pictures taken by diver Rich Zade here: 
http://underthesound.smugmug.com/Underwater

All of these species have evolved and adapted over thousands of years to become part of an ecosystem unique to Washington State. It is not an aquarium but a living and breathing natural system which is under immense pressure.  How regulatory oversight evolves today will determine what type of environment these species will have to adapt to in the future - if they can.  Economic return should not drive how these regulations evolve.

Under The Sound home page is here: http://underthesound.smugmug.com/
Posted by Protect Our Shoreline at 11:44 AM

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