"Fishery officers found 312 oysters, which is 300 more than the daily limit of 12," the report says.

The Nuchatlaht First Nation’s council has advised people not to eat shellfish from local waters after recent testing of ...

But the bivalves have a hard time surviving in the ... They also grow higher up in the the intertidal zone, which means they spend more time closed up and less time filter-feeding seawater ...

If a person becomes sick or dies from the consumption of bivalves, and there is no way to pinpoint the source, widespread closures of all harvests may become necessary, which may have economic ...

Camille Speck, WDFW Puget Sound intertidal bivalve manager, noted that "Many big low tides are occurring earlier this spring than in recent years," which could lead to a successful harvest ...

During yearly ecological survey 'the Synoptic Intertidal Benthic Survey' (SIBES ... The Asian clam is a rounded-triangular shaped, thin-shelled, bivalve. It may reach up to 25 millimeters in size. Its ...

Two days after the spill was reported, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO ) invoked emergency chemical closures for all bivalve shellfish ... the inside waters and intertidal area of Esperanza ...

COURTENAY, BC, March 21, 2025 /CNW/ - On February 21, 2025, in Courtenay Provincial Court, the Honourable Judge B. Hutcheson found Scarborough resident Raul Dumelod guilty of catching and ...