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Gallagher Cove - scows laden with aquaculture supplies
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equipment. 2006
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Another scow or raft laden with geoduck tubes and other
debris. Totten Inlet, 2006.
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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
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Arrays of non-native mussel species produced
and scows in
Gallagher Cove. 2006
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Aerial photo of longlines growing non-native mussels at
Deepwater Point, Totten Inlet. October 2006.
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Aerial photo of mussel arrays, Deepwater Point, Totten Inlet.
October 2006
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.
The proposed installation of the
new mussel rafts in the intended
sub-tidal lease area will include 58 rafts.
That would be 8 times bigger than this picture.
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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
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