Resource Links
State, Local & Federal Government Officials
Write to your elected representatives about the Burley Lagoon
Organizations, News Articles & Links
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