Aquaculture Timeline – Page 9 – Washington Sea Grant

Major anthropogenic physical disturbance

Columbia River: dredging 2-meeter deep channel from Portland to Lewiston completed

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Shellfish and cultivation

Washington Fish Commissioner Crawford expressed great interest in growing eastern oysters in Willapa (Crawford 1892).

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Shellfish and Cultivation

LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

An Act Relating to Tide and Shore Lands:: state owns natural oyster beds, which cannot be sold or leased. Oyster reserves were established, private ownership prior to statehood reaffirmed.

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“About sixteen years ago [1874] he [Captain Simpson] planted a few barrels in Shoalwater Bay, and six years later [1880] a dozen barrels more. These have thrived most wonderfully, and now are found over the entire bay and in the southern portion of Grays Harbor.”

Crawford, 1890

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Aquaculture Timeline, Uncategorized

Legislative actions

An Act for the Appraising andDisposing of the Tide and Shore Lands Belonging to the State of Washington, also known as the “Act of March 26, 1890” or “The Tide Land Bill” (Crawford, 1890). This act states any person who, prior to the passage of the act, has planted oysters in an area other than where they naturally occur has the exclusive right to purchase that land with”perfect title” (up to 80 acres). An Act to Protect ...

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1889

legislative actions

November 11: Washington achieves statehood.

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Legislative Actions

1888

shellfish and cultivation

Soft-shelled clam (Mya arenaria) abundant in Grays Harbor.

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Shellfish and Cultivation

1885

Major anthropogenic physical disturbance

Columbia River: First pile dikes installed on lower Columbia River

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Major Anthropogenic Physical Disturbance

1884

shellfish and cultivation

Mya arenaria abundant in Willapa, transplanted from San Francisco Bay (Stearns, 1895).

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Shellfish and Cultivation

1880

SHELLFISH AND CULTIVATION

Twelve barrels of eastern softshell clams transplanted to Willapa from San Francisco Bay (Crawford, 1890).

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Shellfish and Cultivation

1879

SHELLFISH AND CULTIVATION

Relaying of wild oyster seed from lower Willapa to upper Willapa (Blake et al. 2016).

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Shellfish and Cultivation

1879

LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Act to disallow dredging of oysters above “lowest ebb tide”, restrict harvest between May 15 and September 1, and prohibit leaving culls on the beach. The act stipulated that small oysters must be returned to natural or cultivated beds.

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