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 state Health Department is advising restaurants and retailers in Hawaii not to serve or sell certain oysters and bay clams harvested from Oregon and Washington state due to potential contamination ...

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 ...

QUILCENE — Quilcene Bay is now open for recreational harvesting of all species of shellfish. The bay had been closed Oct. 3 because of high levels of the marine biotoxin that causes potentially lethal ...

Birch Bay State Park file photo. 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 ...

WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. - New test results of shellfish in the waters off Whatcom County have surprised county health officials, forcing them to issue a warning. The new testing has detected marine ...

Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 39. Proceedings of the 8th International Coastal Symposium (ICS 2004), Vol. III (Winter 2006), pp. 1551-1555 (5 pages) Enteric bacteria such as ...

GULF COAST, Miss. (WLOX) - With oysters in the Mississippi Sound finally available to harvest again, fishermen are ready to get back on the water, but they say a state program designed to grow the ...