Heidi Gregory of the Tomales Bay Oyster Co. holds an oyster which died before harvest in Marshall in 2019. (Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal)
After more than a century of agricultural crustaceans in the bay of tomales, the oldest oyster farm in California was taken for the first time from the coastal protections of the state.
California Coastal Commission voted unanimously this month to approve a coastal development permit after the fact that the culture of Oyster Co. of Tomales Bay Oyster in the bay.
.Founded for the first time in 1909, the company established several decades before California approached its coastal development protections under the California coastal law and did not train the California coastal commission in 1976. < /p>
>The past and current owners of the company had never requested a coastal development permit, nor approval of other states and federal regulatory organizations, for their operations until the middle of 2010, according to the Commission.
Heidi Gregory, who now manages the company after taking possession of his father Charles Friend in 2017, continued his father's work to eliminate the old teams inherited from his 160 acres rental contract and now to comply on the farm with various regulations. Agencies.
"We are also proud to finally overcome this process," Gregory said on Tuesday. “It took us a long time. It's great to be finished with that. ""