Articles

2011

• July 14, Betsy Peabody delivers keynote address at the Ralph Munro Institute for Civic Education.  The topic was restoring shellfish harvest in Samish Bay and governing during challenging economic times. (Video)
• June 26, Seattle Times, Once abundant bull kelp beds look to make a comeback in Puget Sound
• June 24, Blue Ocean Institute, Shell Game: recycling oyster shells to restore oyster beds
• June 21, Kitsap Sun, Experiment could help restore kelp forests in Puget Sound
• March 2, Beachcomber,"A Floating Field Station Takes Shape as an Experiment Involving Mussels Begins"
• January/February 2011, Edible Seattle, “The Oyster Garden” 
• Elliot's Oyster House, Oyster New Year nets $10,000 for Puget Sound Restoration Fund

2010 

• August 18, KPLU, “Life is Her Oyster: Walking the Tide Flats with Betsy Peabody
• October 4, Seattle Times, “Census Shows Connectedness of Ocean’s Marine Life”
• Summer, Whatcom Watch Onine, “'Community Supported Aquaculture’ Enters Second Year”
• April 15, Bainbridge Island Review, “Shellfish Farm Helps Restore Ecosystem”
• February 11, The Olympian, “Now, Can Farm Hang on to Oyster Havesting?”
• February 3, Beachcomber, “Researchers look to mussels to help heal a bay”
• Winter 2010, Currents, “Northwest Partnership Helps Restore Olympia Oyster”

2009

• January 20, The Olympian, Bounty of oysters: Nonprofit shellfish farm achieves goal

2008

• Reducing nitrogen by eating oysters (PDF, 269K)
• October, distributed by The Nature Conservancy's Global Marine Initiative, First Contact: A motley team of researchers encounters the Native oysters of Nootka Island and learns a thing or two
• Fall, Puget Sound Nearshore Partnership, Around the Sound (PDF, 6.9MB)
• April, The Nature Conservancy, Olympia Oysters (PDF, 272K)

2007

• June 18, Kitsap Sun , Oysters Have New Abode in Liberty Bay
• June 14, Seattle Times , Ready for return of the native oyster
• April 9, NY Times, Restoration on the Half Shell
  THIS year marks 400 years since the founding of the Jamestown colony, a span in which everything about the area has changed, not least the water. When John Smith first encountered the Chesapeake, he was struck by its beauty and bounty. “Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man’s habitation,” he wrote. The water was clear, fish teemed in its depths, and oysters lay “as thick as stones” on the bottom....

2006

• October, distributed by The Nature Conservancy's Global Marine Initiative, Advancing Oyster Restoration in Puget Sound PDF, 221K)
• October 6, Kitsap Sun, Native Oysters Making a Comeback
• October 3, The Olympian, Baby oyster planting extends hope for renewed population
• August 16, Anacortes American, Volunteers dump seed oysters in Fidalgo Bay
• July 24, Associated Press, Saving the Sound | Part 2 of 2 | Appealing to Stomachs May Unlock Public's Hearts, Minds
• June 26, The Olympian, Shells lure oysters home in Woodard Bay
• May 5, Washington Post, R.I. Shellfish Offer Clue to Health of Chesapeake
  Although 4.5 billion creatures died, the whole thing might have gone unnoticed, except for a couple of Brown University ecologists who dived to the bottom of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay in the summer of 2001. There they found acres of blue mussels, suffocated by pollution-related oxygen loss in the bay waters...

2003

• January 29, Seattle Times, The Olympia oyster, a tasty and nearly extinct little morsel