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Regulations are Needed for Aquaculture Industry Expansion to Protect Puget Sound Habitat, Salmon and other Native Species

Aquaculture is part of Washington State's economic history but expansion must be consistent with the Puget Sound Partnership habitat restoration goals. 

We are asking county, state, federal officials, legislators and Puget Sound Partnership to require and support stringent environmental regulations for industrial tideland development just as are required for upland development and to take the following actions:  (Click here for more...)

Nearshore Studies:

Juvenile Salmonid Composition -- "King County undertook this study to provide basic life cycle information about salmonids in Puget Sound, to ... guide how best to reverse declines of salmonid stocks..."   Click here for more. 

Pacific Estuarine Research Society -- "Salmon in the Nearshore:  What do we know and where do we go?"   Click here for more.



For more information, please see coalition member websites below:


     Protect our Shoreline  (the best source of news, history, and current events)

     Case Inlet Shoreline Association  (great source for aquaculture impacts to fish habitat)

     Association for Responsible Shellfish Farming (Canada)

     Henderson Bay Shoreline Association

     Case Beach Shoreline Association

     Association for the Protection of Hammersley, Eld and Totten Inlets (APHETI)

     Citizens of Hartstene Island, Stretch Island, Anderson Island, Vashon Island and Jefferson 
     County/Shine Beach