
South Sound Green Pages: South Sound Shellfish Farming
One frozen night last January four people stood huddled around a rickety, wooden table perched on a squat, grassy bluff above the beach on Henderson Inlet. It was past one in the morning, just under 30 degrees, and three of the four people standing with head lamps in the dark and quiet were volunteers, there to help sort oysters by size and shape at the Henderson Inlet Community Shellfish Farm. When the farm was started in 2003, commercial shellfish cultivation - a staple of Henderson Inlet sinc