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.

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

1997 DOH Testing for Arsenic Results - Did Harvesting Release Arsenic and Cadmium Trapped in Sediments?

[Update 12/20: Alternative link to Arsenic study added and low end of Arsenic corrected, table from 2007 study added.]

 

Was Arsenic found in the DOH Health Consultation 
from 1997 important to pay attention to?

The Washington Department of Health (DOH) has clarified further that the geoduck which the Chinese state tested positive for Arsenic originated in Puget Sound and those testing positive for Paralytic Shellfish Toxin (PST) - also referred to as Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning toxins (PSP) - originated from Alaska. DOH will begin further testing of geoduck tissue in the area.
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