PSWQA has the option of requiring mandatory changes in the land use 
activities which are affecting Puget Sound shellfish. Will the local 
governments' propose voluntary or mandatory means to reducing the 
bacterial and viral pathogen loading to Puget Sound? And will these 
means work? And finally, will the state legislature provide the money 
required for the proposed monitoring and grant programs? These and other 
important issues concerning the future of recreational and commercial 
shellfish harvesting and Puget Sound water quality will be determined in 
the next few years, beginning with the level of funding that the 1987 
session of Washington State legislature is willing to provide for plan 
implementation. 
Acknowledgements 
In preparing this paper the authors have borrowed heavily from 
Shellfish and Seaweed Harvest of Puget Sound by Daniel P. Cheney and 
Thomas F. Mumford, Jr., Washington Sea Grant Program, University of 
Washington (1986); 1987 Puget Sound Water Quality Management Plan by the 
Puget Sound Water Quality (1987); and the Shellfish Protection Strategy 
by Robert S. Saunders, Washington State Department of Ecology (1984). In 
addition, the authors wish to thank Jack Lilja, Naki Stevens, Ruth 
Taggart, Yvette Mercer, Nellie Johnson, Karen Hoover, and Carol Mochizuki 
for their comments and assistance. 
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