The oysters are from Stellar Bay Shellfish Ltd., Canada, with harvest dates between Dec. 22, 2025, and Feb. 4, 2026.

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 ...

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, ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Portions of Broad Bay in Virginia Beach are closed to shellfish harvesting due to water contamination, the Virginia Department of Health announced. Effective from Nov. 10 ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Discovery Bay in Jefferson and Clallam counties is now open for all harvesting of shellfish except for butter clams and varnish clams, while Oak Bay is open for harvesting of all types ...

Officials from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, in coordination with the shellfish industry, have closed New Hampshire’s Atlantic ...