All recreational shellfish harvesting has been temporarily suspended along Kitsap County’s eastern shoreline after tests taken on Monday found high concentrations of a potentially deadly marine ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend Bay beaches have been closed for recreational shellfish harvesting due to high paralytic shellfish poison levels in samples sent to the state Department of Health. In ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Discovery Bay beaches have been closed for recreational shellfish harvesting due to high paralytic shellfish poison levels in shellfish samples sent to the state Department of Health.

Each summer a massive, cold eddy swirls off the northwest coast of Washington, mixing up nutrients and growing algae -- some of them toxic. New research by local scientists identifies the Juan de Fuca ...

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Health closed beaches in Pierce County to the harvest of all shellfish species due to the presence of biotoxins. The Department of Health also ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – On Thursday, the California Department of Public Health issued an advisory about not consuming sport or recreationally harvested shellfish due to dangerous levels of ...

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH), on March 19, issued an advisory “not to consume” sport/recreationally-harvested shellfish. Dangerous levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins ...

The public is being asked to avoid harvesting and eating softshell clams from Alsea Bay until further notice, according to Lincoln County Public Health. Lab tests on Eckman Lake found high levels of ...

SANTA CRUZ — State health officials are advising the Santa Cruz County community that it’s probably time to cancel those shellfish foraging plans. According to a release from the environmental health ...

SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- The California Department of Public Health sent out a notice advising consumers not to eat sport-harvested mussels, clams, or scallops from San Mateo County.

Paralytic shellfish poison (PSP) has been detected at unsafe levels on the beaches of Vashon-Maury Island's Quartermaster Harbor, according to Public Health – Seattle & King County. As a result, the ...

California public health officials have announced a quarantine on mussels that aren't commercially harvested, cautioning that naturally occurring toxins make the species potentially poisonous to ...