DNR, Taylor Shellfish Settle Dispute

by Tim Flanagan on January 13, 2009

geoduck “OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington state’s largest shellfish company has agreed to pay nearly $630,000 in penalties for growing geoducks on state tideland without permission.

But Taylor Shellfish won’t pay the fine if it doesn’t get a controversial lease to harvest the geoduck and oysters it illegally grew on public land in Totten Inlet near Olympia.”

Read the entire AP story over at The Olympian.

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1 Anonymous January 13, 2009 at 9:58 pm

You mean that thing is a clam? You’re sh*tting me.

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