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 14, 2020

Hearing Examiner Recommends Industrial Shellfish Farm Permit within Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge be Approved

Despite Clallam County staff recommending the permit for an industrial level shellfish farm not be approved, the Hearing Examiner has said it should be, allowing for an initial 20,000 plastic growout bags to be placed on tidelands within the Refuge. Should millions of dollars spent on upland habitat  restoration justify the transformation of tidelands in a Wildlife Refuge?
Read more on Protect Peninsula's Future site here:
 http://www.protectpeninsulasfuture.org/?p=1129

Upland restoration of watersheds
should not justify this. 

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