Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Washington State Department of Health says shellfish harvesting is closed for Vashon Island beaches. That’s because they’ve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harvesting shellfish has been put on hold for several beaches in Washington. According to Public Health Seattle & King County, ...

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 ...

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Health closed beaches in Pierce County to the harvest of all shellfish species due to the presence of biotoxins. The Department of Health also ...

Health officials issued a ban beginning Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, on shellfish harvesting at Pierce County beaches affected by dangerous levels of biotoxins. Beaches in Pierce County are closed to ...

FILE - Grasses and yearling oysters, growing on the large "mother" shells planted throughout the bed, are barely covered by a thin layer of water at low tide on May 1, 2015, in Willapa Bay near ...

Update, Sept. 2: The closure on the Narrows has been lifted. The Colvos Passage closure remains in effect, according to the state Department of Health. Update, Aug. 29: Washington Department of Health ...

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 ...

This year, worries of food poisoning via shellfish toxins have been on the rise, and so have the number of victims. Shellfish sold on the market are completely safe, but caution is required when ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Discovery Bay beaches have been closed for recreational shellfish harvesting due to high paralytic shellfish poison levels in shellfish samples sent to the state Department of Health.

At least six people fell ill with diarrhetic shellfish poisoning after eating mussels harvested in the United Kingdom earlier this year. The mussels contained high levels of heat-stable okadaic acid ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - State health officials say a man who ate clams from a beach near Ketchikan on Sunday developed symptoms characteristic of paralytic shellfish poisoning. Samples from the clam ...