06-10-2013 North Bay Leadership Council Supports DBOC by Jane Gyorgy “North Bay Leadership Council (NBLC) supports Drakes Bay Oyster Farm being granted a permit to continue to utilize the onshore facilities and thus preserve the last oyster cannery in California, a unique treasure in the North Bay. NBLC recognizes that the oyster farm produces 40 – 50% of all oysters in California and is an important local supplier of sustainable food. The oyster farm is also a key employer in job-scarce West Marin and an economic engine in the local economy. " From: "Cynthia Murray" To: "Cynthia Murray" Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 6:43:14 PM Subject: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NBLC Support Drakes Bay Oyster Farm FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Petaluma, CA North Bay Leadership Council (NBLC) supports Drakes Bay Oyster Farm being granted a permit to continue to utilize the onshore facilities and thus preserve the last oyster cannery in California, a unique treasure in the North Bay. NBLC recognizes that the oyster farm produces 40 – 50% of all oysters in California and is an important local supplier of sustainable food. The oyster farm is also a key employer in job-scarce West Marin and an economic engine in the local economy. Given the oyster farm’s long term history and contractual relationship with the State of California, NBLC recognizes and supports the State of California’s rights over oyster cultivation. The State Fish and Wildlife Commission (formerly Fish and Game Commission) has leased the tidelands within the Point Reyes National Seashore for shellfish cultivation since 1934. NBLC asks Assembly member Marc Levine, chair of the Select Agriculture and Environment Committee, to urge the state to assert its rights to continue to lease the water bottoms in Drakes Estero for shellfish cultivation which would include giving support to the Fish and Wildlife Commission in its full jurisdiction. NBLC asks that Congressman Jared Huffman to support a bi-partisan Congressional investigation by the appropriate House Committee of Natural Resources, of which he is a member, into the questioned science that informed Secretary Salazar’s decision to not grant the oyster farm a permit for the facilities onshore Drakes Estero. NBLC seeks a positive resolution to the granting of the permit to the oyster farm which has achieved a rare balance of agricultural and environmental stewardship that presents an exemplary template of harmonious co-existence of sustainable agriculture and wilderness. We urge that all parties seek to do the right thing by permitting this economically important, historically significant and unique oyster farm to continue to producing the oysters so beloved by so many in the North Bay. North Bay Leadership Council is an employer-led public policy advocacy organization committed to providing leadership in ways to make the North Bay sustainable, prosperous and innovative. The Council includes 44 leading employers in the region. Our members represent a wide variety of businesses, non-profits and educational institutions, with a workforce in excess of 25,000. For more information, contact Cynthia Murray at (707) 283-0028 or [email protected] Cynthia L. Murray President & CEO North Bay Leadership Council 775 Baywood Dr., Suite 101 Petaluma, CA 94954 707.283.0028 tel 707.763.3028 fax [email protected] northbayleadership.org NBLC leading the North Bay … Employers committed to providing leadership in ways to make the North Bay Sustainable, Prosperous and Innovative CONNECT TO US "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." ~ Michelangelo Note: Cynthia Murray is a former Supervisor, Marin County Board of Supervisors, District # 5 Jane Gyorgy | June 11, 2013 at 8:23 AM | Tags: California Oysters, D Vex, DOI, DOI IG, DOI Inspector General, DOI OIG, DOI Policy, DOI SIO, Dr. Mary Carman, Drake, Drakes, Drakes Bay, Drakes Bay Oyster Company, Drakes Bay Oyster Farm, Drakes Bay Oyster Farm Closing, Drakes Bay Oyster Farm Drakes Estero, environmental impact, Estero, invasive, Lunny, Lunnys, major impact, Marin County, National Park Service, NBLC, noise, North Bay Leadership Council, NPS, NPS DEIS, NPS Management policy, NPS SIO, OIG, oyster, oyster boat, oyster boats, oyster farm, oyster farming, oyster tumbler, oysters, Petaluma, Point Reyes, Point Reyes National Seashore, PRNS, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Scientific and Scholarly Conduct, Scientific Integrity Officer, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Senator Feinstein, SOI, soundscape, subtidal hard substrate, tunicate, violation, West Marin. Didemnum vexillumn, Woods Hole, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Categories: Articles & Letters | URL: wp.me/p1WvJh-SW Comment See all comments
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