Coast Seafoods Company Gone By August?
July 11, 2017 | 1 min to read
After farming shellfish in Humboldt Bay since the 1950s, the largest shellfish producer in the state Coast Seafoods Company could be gone by next month following a consequential California Coastal Commission decision in June, according to Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District Executive Director Jack Crider.
“Conceivably, if something doesn’t change, Coast could be out of business by the middle of August,” Crider said. “It is a really serious situation. More than anything, it’s just this signal to the aquaculture industry that California is just not the place to be, which is sad. Really sad.”
Coast Seafoods’ coastal development permit, first acquired in May 2006, is set to expire in August unless renewed by the Coastal Commission.
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