The shellfish and geoduck industry promotes themselves as environmental heroes. Are they considerate of fish and bird habitat?
A. No, absolutely not. They’re interested in making money as a business by exploiting Puget Sound’s tidelands. If they were interested in fish, bird and other wildlife habitat of the intertidal, they would have waited to expand operations until baseline studies had been completed. The shellfish industry removes and destroys eelgrass, sand dollars, starfish, and many other important native species and organisms that get in the way of their profits. The shellfish industry is lying when they assert that they are environmentalists. They’re only interested in the environment to the extent that it benefits them.
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