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Gallagher Cove - scows laden with aquaculture supplies and equipment.  2006

Another scow or raft laden with geoduck tubes and other debris.  Totten Inlet, 2006

 

Gallagher Cove rafts in various stages of repair and disrepair. Note blue barrels holding up the rafts.  Interspersed are lines 4 inches apart, and 12 to 20 feet long, each holding hundreds of mussels.  2006

Arrays of non-native mussel species produced  and scows in Gallagher Cove. 2006

Aerial photo of longlines growing non-native mussels at Deepwater Point, Totten Inlet.  October 2006.

Aerial photo of mussel arrays, Deepwater Point, Totten Inlet.  Each  array is made up of six rafts.  Each raft is approximately 30' by 34' in size.  If you do not live within 300 feet of such a project, you will not be notified that this will be coming to the water near you.  WA Department of Natural Resources leases out these sub-tidal sea beds.  October 2006

Aerial photo, Gallagher Cove, Totten Inlet.  Seven arrays of three rafts each growing the non-native mussel, M. galloprovincialis.  Taylor proposed doubling this amount at this site, and putting in originally 108 rafts in north Totten Inlet, later decreased to 58.  EIS is pending for this project.   October 2006