MASON COUNTY, Wash. — A long and likely expensive trip from the Seattle area to Hood Canal to harvest oysters probably didn’t turn out the way a group had hoped.
According to Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Police, Mason County shellfish harvesters took advantage of extreme low tides last month. On one weekend, WDFW Police Sergeant Jewett saw some people he believed were loading buckets of shellfish from a public beach into a minivan along Highway 101 near Potlatch State Park.
The minivan drove away and then parked in a nearby lot. The harvesters had also failed to shuck the oysters on the beach as required…