Coastal Commission Reverses Course, Renews Coast Seafoods' Shellfish Permit

After narrowly rejecting Coast Seafoods’ planned oyster farming expansion and denying renewal of the company’s permit in June, the California Coastal Commission on Thursday reversed course and unanimously agreed to extend the permit through the end of the year.

If the commission hadn’t done so, Coast Seafoods would have had to immediately shut down operations on Humboldt Bay, Undercurrent News reports. The company plans to submit a revised expansion plan to the commission before the end of the year.

Coast Seafood had already received permit extensions from both the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board.

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