Oysters in Willapa Bay (Photo: Tara Schmidt, reproduced under a Creative Commons license)
Washington (stupidly) turns to neurotoxins to save its non-native oysters
In one of the finest pieces that Bloomberg has ever published, journalist Bill Donahue explains how Washington State’s oyster industry got approval from the Washington State Department of Ecology to spray a toxic chemical that isn’t supposed to be used in aquatic environments all over Willapa Bay, with the aim of killing off a native burrowing shrimp species, so that non-native oysters can continue to be harvested for profit in large numbers.
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