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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the official start of summer approaches, federal officials are warning Americans to take extra precautions when eating oysters and clams to avoid a potentially deadly illness known as paralytic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While Whatcom County beaches have been closed to the harvesting of molluscan shellfish for several weeks already, the Whatcom County Health Department said today that a new toxin has been found in ...

The Washington State Department of Health has again closed off all beaches in Whatcom County to recreational harvesting of all molluscan shellfish. The closure comes from the unsafe levels of ...

Scientists have assessed the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods for norovirus in shellfish. They found such techniques are ready to substitute current methods despite some limitations.