Really, there is only 1 Earth, people really need to quit fucking it up!!

Valerie Friedman

Tens of thousands of pesticides are registered which are constantly changing. Formulations also are constantly changing. There are no checks and balances which includes staff and funding to independently evaluate these pesticides. Data is industry produced. Until there is funding and adequate environmental protection of human, fishery, and animal habitat, hands off micro-managing the environment with toxic chemicals! There are too many questions for safe use and long term effects.

I’m a lifelong environmentalist dedicated to protecting the earth. The use of toxic pesticides needs to be taken much more seriously, particularly in fragile and vital ecosystems.

Calli Madrone

Water is such a precious resource, please give it all the chances you can to stay clean and safe.

Please don’t put any more pesticides in any water. Peer reviewed scientific papers state that all neonics kill land life as well as a lot of aquatic life. Save the whole environment!!!

I have a wonderful memory of a visit to Willapa Bay about 5 years ago. We ate freshly harvested oysters and local organic vegetables. Please protect this very fragile native ecosystem and do not allow pesticides to be used.

Ecology should not be “testing” an area of open water with a broad spectrum pesticide for the benefit of one shellfish grower, because of where his property is situated. he is not guaranteed a “right” to grow shellfish, if they just won’t grow in that location. It is unbelievable that we should be harming native aquatic organisms for the benefit of the shellfish industry, period. There is no public benefit in this action, only private, therefore it should not meet the test for SEPA. Also, without including in the study the broad scale ecosystem effects on other organisms with unknown or to date undocumented roles in the ecosystem food chain, it is irresponsible to perform this study. At the very least, documenting the longevity, and the impacts to other species in the sediment and water columns should be tested before this study goes forward, rather than use WA State waters and organisms as guinea pigs for no public benefit or reason, other than the desires of one farmer. This study could upset a balance during a time of changing sea levels that tips the system toward further risk of invasive species colonization, negatively effecting the entire shellfish(including crab) and sea food industries, as well as recreational fishing. Is the role of ghost shrimp fully understood in ecoysystem resilience for instance? Performing studies with harmful substances in open water is the height of irresponsibility, especially knowing that this is a broad spectrum toxicant. Spraying poisons in our waters, when so many millions of dollars are spent each year on restoring salmon is just plain stupid and it is also not in alignment with WA state residents interests and wishes, nor is it in alignment with WA state law. Even if the treatment is found to be effective on ghost shrimp and the other shrimp, the industry will not be using this broadscale toxicant due to public opinion who will not buy the shellfish if this is done. This would be damaging to the shellfish industry as a whole. And without testing of the effects on the other organisms in the system, this “study” does not really address the real question- is it safe? And can we really test the cumulative effects over time of this pesticide?