Effects of Urbanization on Shellfish Growing Areas

In 2002, the Puget Sound Partnership organized a project to better understand and study the effects of growth and urbanization on the region's shellfish growing areas, and to outline guidelines to more effectively protect water quality in these areas.

The following are products from the project:

• Fact Sheet: Preserving Puget Sound's shellfish growing areas  | PDF
  
  
• New Approaches to Shellfish Protection in Puget Sound. | PDF
  
  
• Assessing the Impacts of Urbanization on Shellfish Growing Areas in Puget Sound.  | PDF
  
  
• Literature Review and Analysis: Coastal Urbanization and Microbial Contamination of Shellfish Growing Areas.  | PDF
  
  
• Poster: Coastal Urbanization and Microbial Contamination of Shellfish Growing Areas. | PDF
  
  
• An Analysis of Microbial Pollution in the Sinclair-Dyes Inlet Watershed. A publication of the Department of Ecology and a product of Project ENVVEST.
  
  

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For more information about the Puget Sound Partnership’s work with protecting shellfish habitat, contact info@psp.wa.gov.

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