Beaches 'full of tubes, netting, rebar' Geoduck farm fight: Round 2.

From: News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) | Date: May 8, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Susan Gordon

May 8--Shellfish growers and the waterfront-area residents who oppose geoduck farms are again facing off.

This time, instead of at the Legislature in Olympia, the focus is the Pierce County Council. The council's community development committee Monday heard from both sides in a dispute over proposed limits on intertidal geoduck farms.

But unlike recent hearings in Olympia, where near equal numbers of opposing points of view wer...

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