In a phone call with the News Tribune, Bridget Mire, communications specialist with the Washington Department of Fish and ...

To ensure harvesters are following these new rules, the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife will routinely ...

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 ...

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 ...

State officials have closed beaches in West Seattle and Vashon Island to recreational shellfish harvesting, after detecting unsafe levels of a potentially deadly toxin in the marine animals, Public ...

Marine water quality is improving across most of Washington’s commercial shellfish harvesting areas, although some locations will require additional restrictions, including Westport and Ocean Shores.

According to an ADPH news release, areas I and II, including Dauphin Island Bay, Cedar Point, Heron Bay and Portersville Bay closed June 1. “The order was issued as a result of possible ...