Letter to commissioner Franz regarding net pen site lease

With this letter, I am submitting for your consideration four draft applications to lease Puget Sound aquatic land sites currently or previously leased for commercial marine net pen finfish aquaculture. I am requesting to lease these
lands with Wild Fish Conservancy serving as the legal and fiscal agent, holding these lands in trust for the sole purposes of:

1) Restoringtheseindustrializedaquaticlandstotheirnaturalstatefortherestorationandconservationof threatened and endangered species, water quality, and the overall health and function of Puget Sound’s ecosystem.
2) Restoringfullaccessoftheseaquaticlandstothepublicfortheirbenefit,useandenjoyment