Haley/Seattle Shellfish-Taylor Shellfish Geoduck Farm: Presentations from Shorelines Hearings Board Hearing Availabe

Get involved. Become aware of what is happening

to Puget Sound's critical marine habitat

and why the Haley/SS/TS Permit

should be denied.

 

Area proposed to be transformed

into a geoduck farm.

 

Presentations from the Shorelines Hearings Board expert witnesses are available on-line through links provided below.

 

It's not grandpa Taylor's oyster farm

Become more aware of how aquaculture has stepped far beyond its past benign activities to those which can only be described as "industrial." Below are links to various presentations made before the SHB by the Coalition to Protect Puget Sound Habitat's witnesses in support of why the permit for this farm should be denied and a cumulative impacts analysis should be required.

 

See why current proposals are not in the state wide interest

Get involved. Become aware. These activities are not in the state wide interest nor should they in any way be considered a "preferred use" of Washington's critical marine habitat. File sizes are noted, some large, but the information contained is invaluable.

 

Presentations

Jim Johannessen - coastal geomorphology and sediment transport (11mb pdf file)
http://coalitiontoprotectpugetsoundhabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/johannessen-haley-20150223.pdf

 

James Brennan - impacts from geoduck farming, focused on Haley proposal (5mb file)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o7ftnf9p5o5e99j/Brennan-pptSHB3.pdf?dl=0

 

Charles Moore - plastic pollution (17mb file)
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=6C46FDD5E8941579!117&ithint=file%2cpptx&app=PowerPoint&authkey=!ADS4euTc-PQ6Rno

 

Dr. Gary Ritchie - on Seagrant's Dr. Van Blaricom's study lacking in statistical rigor (Dr. Van Blaricom's study is often quoted by the shellfish industry as "proof" there is no harm to habitat) (less than 1mb)
http://coalitiontoprotectpugetsoundhabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ritchie2.pdf

 

Slide shows of what is happening now

South Sound Aquaculture Pictures - side show of how south Puget Sound's critical marine habitat is being transformed by intensive aquaculture (8mb file)
http://1drv.ms/1FzSZJ4

 

Burley Lagoon Aquaculture Pictures - how Taylor Shellfish is "intensifying" aquaculture activities in Burley Lagoon (15mb file)
http://1drv.ms/18rFz89  

 

Get involved

Get involved - become aware of what is happening to Puget Sound's critical marine habitat. The shellfish industry is and they have money and motivation to transform Puget Sound's critical marine habitat into their vision, devoid of native species they consider "pests."



Reminder: March 3, 5:30 PM - Charles Moore to speak on plastic pollution in the marine environment.

When: March 3, 5:30PM

Where: University of Puget Sound Rotunda (see campus map below)

1500 N. Warner Street, Tacoma, Wa

 

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Just because you can't see it

doesn't mean it's not there.

 

Get involved.

 

Reminder: March 3 - Charles Moore to speak on plastic pollution in marine waters in Tacoma.

March 3, 5:30 PM, Charles Moore will speak in Tacoma 

on plastic pollution in the marine waters.

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Hear how plastics are impacting our marine waters

Captain Charles Moore will present “A Month in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch” –the 2014 voyage was his tenth and longest research voyage aboard Oceanographic Research Vessel Alguita.  They discovered and walked on an island of plastic and he will show video of his tour of the island.  We also took blood from various fish species to determine the effects of living in a platicized habitat. He will discuss the difference between samples of plastic and plankton taken at the surface and at 10 meters depth.  He will also discuss the use made of drones to survey the tremendous increase in plastic in the garbage patch. Copies of his book, “Plastic Ocean”, revised with a new chapter on the health effects of plastic, will be available for $20.

www.algalita.org 

Click here for a biography of Charles Moore.

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Charles Moore to Speak on Ocean Plastics

Plastic Pollution in Puget Sound is no Better

Charles Moore, noted scientist and activist, will speak on "A Month in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" at the University of Puget Sound on March 3 at 5:30 PM (see posters below). He will also be testifying before Washington's Shorelines Hearings Board March 3, at 9 AM, regarding the Taylor/Seattle Shellfish joint geoduck farm on the Haley family tidelands, along with James Brennan and Jim Johannessen who will be testifying March 2. 

In early December, James Brennan wrote a challenge to the Puget Sound Partnership in which he detailed why an article in Salish Sea Currents by Eric Wagner on "ecosystem services" provided by oysters was "...inaccurate, misleading, and promotes an industry that has a history of actions that run counter to protecting and restoring marine ecosystems." Mr. Brennan rightfully challenges claims by the shellfish industry, among others that they are a "cornerstone to the economy of Puget Sound" (it's not Boeing nor Microsoft) and that relying on Marlene Meaders, a consultant for the shellfish industry, for insight without checking the facts skews his article to one being little more than a promotion for an industry doing long term damage to critical marine habitats.

Center for Biological Diversity Files Petition with EPA for Regulation of PVC

Where do all those PVC tubes go

after 2 years in Puget Sound?

What leaches off of the  ~40,000/acre

used for geoduck farms?

 

Center for Biological Diversification Files Petition with EPA

The Center for Biological Diversification has filed a petition with the EPA asking for increased regulatory oversight of PVC products such as the 8" pipes used in geoduck farming. CBD provides a wealth of studies and information which document the risks to the marine environment from PVC degradation. [see petition here]

 

"Choking the Oceans with Plastic"

NY Times, August 25, 2013

Case Inlet, Puget Sound

Escaped PVC pipes from geoduck farm.

 

Aquaculture is part of a bigger problem, but it is poised to become a much bigger part of the problem

Escaped PVC, netting and rope from aquaculture in Puget Sound is only part of a larger problem of escaped plastics in the ocean. But it is a growing problem and poised to expand immensely. As Charles Moore notes in his editorial entitled "Chocking the Oceans with Plastic", printed in the New York Times on August 25:

The problem is compounded by the aquaculture industry, which uses enormous amounts of plastic in its floats, nets, lines and tubes.

Help put the brakes on plastic pollution in Puget Sound
You can help stop the risk to Puget Sound and the upland areas where the PVC pipes are disposed of when no longer useable. Contact your County Commissioners and tell them as creators of the Shoreline Master Programs which implement the intended goal of the Shoreline Management Act to protect Puget Sound's tidelands you demand PVC pipes be tightly controlled, from cradle to grave, in not entirely banned.

Click here for Thurston County contact information
Click here for Mason County contact information
Click here for Pierce County contact information