The Washington State Department of Health has closed recreational harvest of molluscan shellfish from Sandy Point up to the Canadian border due to unsafe levels of a paralytic biotoxin. Molluscan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state Health Department is advising restaurants and retailers in Hawaii not to serve or sell certain oysters and bay clams ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is now allowing individuals and businesses to lease previously unavailable water bottoms. “It gives them the opportunity to lease ...

Imported molluscan shellfish from Europe are as safe as if they were harvested off Puget Sound or Massachusetts Bay, according to a Food and Drug Administration finding. FDA’s equivalence ...

The Washington State Department of Health has closed recreational harvest of molluscan shellfish in all of Whatcom County due to unsafe levels of a paralytic biotoxin. Molluscan shellfish include ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Lethal concentrations of a nerve biotoxin deadly for both humans and animals found in shellfish samples have prompted the closure of Fort Flagler, Mystery Bay and Kilisut Harbor ...

Korean shellfish imports have been blocked by the U.S. since May 1 because Korean waters may have been polluted with human fecal waste, the U.S. Food and Drug Admnistration (FDA) said on Friday.

PORT TOWNSEND — Harmful algae blooms continue to shut down recreational shellfish harvesting in Jefferson County. Test results received this week of shellfish samples taken from Quilcene Bay found ...

DNREC has temporarily closed the Delaware Bay for shellfish harvesting due to undertreated wastewater contamination risks. The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has enforced a ...

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a molluscan shellfish equivalence determination for two European Union (EU) Member States, Spain and the Netherlands. Today's announcement is a ...