Legal Opinion
Echo Bay Community Ass'n v. Department of Natural Resources
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided June 19, 2007No. 34883-7-IIPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
¶1 — Echo Bay Community Association appeals from a superior court judgment that the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) may lease bedlands to someone who is not the owner of abutting shorelands or tidelands, i.e., a commercial herring operation. We hold that DNR may lease to a nonabutting person for aqua-cultural purposes and that herring net pens constitute aquaculture “processing,” even though the herring are only held without feeding in order to prepare them for bait. We affirm.
Bridgewater, J.
*324FACTS
¶2 In September 2005, DNR leased bedlands,1 located in Echo Bay off Fox Island in Pierce…
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