State Swallows NIMBY's Geoduck Story

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Seattlest Ronald is en route to an assignment in Spain, so this isn't as detailed as it would be, were he not waiting for a connecting flight.

Still, a word about a disturbing story in the Pee Eye yesterday. It seems that Taylor Shellfish is facing a huge fine, well over a million clams, for inadvertently "trespassing" on DNR tidelands.

Taylor points out that it bought the land decades ago. The tresspass charge comes from NIMBY and longtime aquaculture foe Laura Hendricks, who convinced the state that Taylor's geoducks farm on Totten Inlet is evil. Funny, just four years ago the Pee Eye ran a detailed piece about the terrific future of geoduck farming.

Want to know more about geoducks? Info here and here. Want to see for yourself? Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs" series airs its Geoduck Farmer episode tonight; you can watch host Mike Rowe waist deep in mud as he harvests the giant clams in the cold waters of Puget Sound.

Nor have we heard the last of geoducks. Shellfish guru Jon Rowley says they're the next big thing for restaurant tables. Meantime, he'll be at the annual (and sold out) Oyster New Year tonight at Elliott's Oyster House, shucking East Coast Virginicas like nobody's business.

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By Ronald in News on November 1, 2008 8:00 AM

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Sarah B

"Holden Swallows NAMBI Geoduck Story" Mr. Holden, on his way to Spain, has swallowed NAMBI Bill Dewey's excuse about why Taylor Shellfish reaped millions of dollars off of state land they didn't own. Claiming they didn't know where the boundaries of the parcel they owned were is harder to swallow than the gritty texture of a geoduck neck. How many more state tidelands have they been using because they couldn't read a survey? Mr. Holden needs to be a bit less beholden to Taylor Shellfish and remember that it's called Puget Sound, not Taylor Sound. That's a story that's easy to swallow.

ronaldholden

When all else fails, try an ad hominem attack. Who writes your stuff, dude? Karl Rove? And what's this about "every other publication"? Perhaps you weren't born when Seattle Weekly published the city's first (unpaid, unbiased) restaurant reviews? Oyster New Year? A no-show, since I'm on a press tour in Spain.

Sad.

bigyaz

"Inadvertently 'trespassing'." Guess you can tell where Ronald's allegiances lie, even though he has absolutely no facts to back up this contention.

Holden loves to suck up to people in the food community so they'll let him tag along, invite him to their freebie events (so he'll give them free publicity) and let him pretend he belongs to the club. (No doubt he's slimed his way into that Oyster New Year event he's hyping.)

Just to be safe, he slips in yet another, irrelevant worshipful mention of Jon Rowley in this post. Oh, and somehow he wants to blame this on the P-I, since like every other publication in town they've never offered him a job. (What, no gratuitous slams at Leslie Kelly?)

Sad.