Hey everybody today we're going to talk about ocean acidification. Bill Dewey has worked as a shellfish farmer in Washington State for over 40 years.

He is the director of public affairs for Taylor Shellfish Farms, the largest producer of farmed oysters,

clams, and mussels in the United States, and he has owned and operated his own Shellfish Farm in Washington's

Salmish Bay for 25 years. He served on Washington's Salish Bay for 25 years.

He served on Washington State's Ocean Acidification

Blue Ribbon Panel in 2011,

and it currently serves on the Washington Marine Resource Advisory Council,

advising Washington's governor and legislature on the state's response

to ocean acidification. Bill, thank you so much for joining us.

I've wanted to talk to people about this issue

for a long time.

When I was at Waterkeeper, we had a lot of our waterkeepers

were also in the commercial fishing industry, including shellfish industry.

And I started hearing about ocean acidification almost 20 years ago.

It's a subject that most Americans probably know very little about.

So can you talk about it? First of all, tell us what that background is. That's, is that, that's one of your farms up at Bellingham? Yeah, that's one of our oyster farms that's called

long line culture where you're clustered oysters up online suspended up off the bottom and yeah it's up up mirrored it down the city of Bellingham, Northern Puget Sound.

Yeah, and I had a lawsuit that kept me in Bellingham for a long time against the Navy,

against the shipyard there. I was representing some of the tribes whose

salmon fisheries were being degraded and impacted by toxic discharges from the naval shipyard.

Well, I'm very grateful to you, sir,

for all of your environmental work.

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