“Environmental stewardship doesn't end at the shoreline.”
Our marine ecosystem needs protection from industrial aquaculture
Conservation Groups Sue State, Demanding Shoreline Protection
April 12, 2018 Protect Zangle Cove, the Coalition to Protect Puget Sound Habitat and Wild Fish Conservancy filed suit today against the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (“WDFW”), demanding an end to the improper exemption of...
How Much Plastic Do You Want In Your Orcas and Salmon?
Concerns about plastic in our marine environments are increasing—as they should! Every week new articles appear across news media and scientific journals, documenting the marine plastics disaster. The devastating impacts, and escalating...
Shellfish Growers Netting Off Puget Sound Shorelines
The Coalition is hearing from more and more citizens about the negative impacts of industrial aquaculture practices in area waters. These images depict a small part of those impacts—in the form of plastic netting used in geoduck production....
Coalition Sues Army Corps Over Cumulative Impacts
See a map of existing and proposed shellfish farms. July 31, 2016 Coalition Comments on Proposal to Reissue and Modify Nationwide Permits under the Clean Water Act Submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Read the complete...
Coalition Petitions Army Corps to Suspend New Permits
Read the Petition here PRESS RELEASE The Coalition To Protect Puget Sound Habitat filed a legal Petition today with the US Army Corps of Engineers, asking that the Corps suspend the use of the Clean Water Act Nationwide Permit 48,...
State (At Last) Disallows Neurotoxin Use In Willapa Bay
Many Coalition members and supporters are echoing the shock and dismay described in Danny Westneat’s April 28, 2015 Seattle Times article, Disbelief over state plan to spray neurotoxin into oyster beds. What can we do? The Coalition is...
About
The Coalition is an alliance of interested citizens, environmentalists, scientists, and recreation users who are concerned about current and expanding aquaculture in both the nearshore environment and public waters, and its impacts on plant, animal and ecological function.
Our mission is to voice citizens’ concerns of aquaculture, its impact to the health and quality of Puget Sound and coastal waters and to effect changes to policies, regulations, and their enforcement to protect shoreline habitat.
Contribute
Make a Donation
The Coalition to Protect Puget Sound Habitat is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We welcome your contributions.
You may also mail your contribution to PO Box 233, Burley, WA 98322.
Become Educated
Read This Isn’t Your Grandfather’s Oyster Farm. You will also find a great deal of information on the Research and Legal pages.
Read the WA State Shoreline Management Act
Contact your Legislators and Officials
Contact your local State Representative and Senator. Tell them that there needs to be an Environmental Impact Statement done for this experimental industry. Tell them you are concerned with the inherent harm in an uncoordinated and piecemeal development of the State’s Shorelines, as stated in the Shoreline Management Act.
WA Director of Ecology, Maia Bellon, 360-407-6989
Links
Protect Our Shoreline News – Regularly updated blog from this active organization
Case Inlet Shoreline Association
APHETI – Association for the Protection of Hammersley, Eld and Totten Inlets
Washington Sierra Club – Aquaculture
Protect Zangle Cove, and the Protect Zangle Cove Blog
Friends of Anderson Island Shoreline – Email
Friends of Burley Lagoon – Email
Algalita Marine Research Institute
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