Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Birch Bay State Park file photo. (Alyse Smith/The Bellingham Herald) The Washington State Department of Health has closed ...

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 ...

The FDA is advising restaurants and food retailers not to serve or sell and to dispose of, and consumers not to eat, certain oysters from Dailyfresh Shellfish Inc. The implicated oysters are from lot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harvesting closed for most shellfish in Whatcom after biotoxins discovered in Bellingham Bay and Drayton Harbor. Robert Mittendorf The Bellingham Herald The Whatcom County Health Department on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...