Resource Links
State, Local & Federal Government Officials
Write to your elected representatives about the importance of the diverse habitats of Burley Lagoon and Puget Sound and the conservation that is needed to preserve, protect and restore our environment for the future.
Organizations, News Articles & Links
Friends of Burley Lagoon – Taylor Shellfish – Joint Press
Release
Taylor Shellfish and Friends of Burley Lagoon Reach Agreement on
Geoduck Cultivation Proposal
Burley Lagoon Geoduck Farm Final Permit and Other Documents
https://www.piercecountywa.gov/7418/Burley-Lagoon-Geoduck-Farm
Burley Association Website
https://www.burleyassociation.org/
Updates to a permit that helps remove noxious weeds
https://ecology.wa.gov/blog/november-2024/updates-to-a-permit-that-helps-remove-noxious-weeds
Court of Appeals Backs Environmentalists: Federal Greenlight of
Industrial Aquaculture Unlawful
https://olyopen.com/2021/02/12/court-of-appeals-backs-environmentalists-federal-greenlight-of-industrial-shellfish-aquaculture-unlawful/
Shellfish Aquaculture in Washington: Pesticides, Plastics, and
Pollution Impacts to Our Environment:
https://issuu.com/centerforfoodsafety/docs/shellfish-medium-res
All About Eelgrass
https://richardsonbay.audubon.org/conversation/all-about-eelgrass
Olympic Peninsula Environmental News - Aquaculture
https://olyopen.com/?s=aquaculture
Olympic Peninsula Environmental News - Shellfish
https://olyopen.com/?s=shellfish
The Importance of Eelgrass
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/importance-eelgrass
Coalition to
Protect Puget Sound
http://coalitiontoprotectpugetsoundhabitat.org
Friends of Pierce County
https://www.friendsofpiercecounty.org
The Legal and Environmental Implications of the Washington
Shellfish Initiative: Is it Sustainable?
https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sjel/vol4/iss1/6/
Trawling for Fish May Unleash as Much Carbon as Air Travel, Study
Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/climate/climate-change-oceans.html
Washington Sea Grant researchers seek paths forward in local
conflicts over geoduck farming
https://seagrant.noaa.gov/News/Article/Washington-Sea-Grant-researchers-seek-paths-forward-in-local-conflicts-over-geoduck-farming
Gear, not geoducks, impacts ecosystem if farming increases
https://www.washington.edu/news/2015/10/21/gear-not-geoducks-impacts-ecosystem-if-farming-increases/
Oyster growers have new plans to spray beds with pesticide
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/oyster-growers-have-new-plans-to-spray-beds-with-pesticide/
Geoduck farming might hamper salmon, seabirds
http://archive.kitsapsun.com/news/local/mason/geoduck-farming-might-hamper-salmon-seabirds-ep-1348638474-353947811.html
Protect forage fish, cornerstone of our ocean’s food web
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/protect-forage-fish-cornerstone-of-our-oceans-food-web/
Damning emails surface showing state concerns over aquaculture
methods
https://olyopen.com/2018/05/13/damning-emails-surface-showing-state-concerns-over-aquaculture-methods/
Kitsap Audubon Society Newsletter - March 2021
https://static1.squarespace.com/...KingfisherMar21.pdf
With Declining Orcas and Salmon, Why Do We Allow the Shellfish
Industry to Poison Our Coastal Waters With Herbicides and Pesticides?
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/03/with-declining-orcas-and-salmon-why-do.html
Pest Management, Strategic Plan for Bivalves in Oregon and
Washington
https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/sce-authors/u591/OR-WAbivalvePMSP.pdf
Legal Action Defends Washington's Decision to Keep Neurotoxins Out
of Willapa Bay, Grays Harbor
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2019/imidacloprid-02-05-2019.php
Evaluating trophic and non-trophic effects of shellfish aquaculture
in a coastal estuarine foodweb
https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/73/2/429/2614240
Judge tosses federal permit for Washington shellfish industry,
saying it doesn’t do enough to protect environment
https://www.seattletimes.com/judge-throws-out-federal-permit-for-washington-shellfish-industry-cites-lack-of-full-environmental-review/
Zostera japonica management on commercial clam beds in Willapa
Bay General Permit
https://ecology.wa.gov/Regulations-Permits/Permits-certifications/Aquatic-pesticide-permits/Zostera-japonica-eelgrass-management
History of the Control of Burrowing Shrimp and Non-Native Eelgrass
https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/about/commission/meetings/2016/04/apr0816_18_A_presentation.pdf
25 Acre Geoduck Permit – Burley Lagoon
https://pals.piercecountywa.gov/palsonline/#/permitSearch/permit/documents?applPermitId=823304