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 ...

Imported molluscan shellfish from Europe are as safe as if they were harvested off Puget Sound or Massachusetts Bay, according to a Food and Drug Administration finding. FDA’s equivalence ...

BELLINGHAM — State health officials say biotoxin levels in southern Whatcom County have been decreasing and it’s now OK to harvest molluscan shellfish. The drop in Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning, or ...

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 ...

State health officials are warning consumers not to eat any fresh or frozen molluscan shellfish from South Korea. Molluscan shellfish include fresh or frozen oysters, clam and mussels. Also on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...