Our mission is to protect the habitat of Puget Sound tidelands from the underregulated expansion of new and intensive shellfish aquaculture methods. These methods were never anticipated when the Shoreline Management Act was passed. They are transforming the natural tideland ecosystems in Puget Sound and are resulting in a fractured shoreline habitat. In South Puget Sound much of this has been done with few if any meaningful shoreline permits and with limited public input. It is exactly what the Shoreline Management Act was intended to prevent.

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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Penn Cove Avoids Biotoxin Closure, Department of Health Warns of Warm Temperatures and Vibrio

September 7, 2012, Department of Health closes the following area to recreational and sport shellfish digging due to biotoxins in shellfish:
In Island County, all of Saratoga Passage to include east Whidbey Island from Strawberry Point south to Possession Point including Crescent Harbor, Oak Harbor and Holmes Harbor and west Camano Island from Brown Point south to Camano Head. Penn Cove is not included in the closure.
[click here for additional information on recreational closures]
Note: Commercial closures are listed separately.
[Click here for commercial closure information. Registration may be necessary.]

Area closed to recreational harvesting September 7 
due to elevated levels of biotoxins in shellfish.
 
Note: After additional research, the Department of Health found one of the illnesses attributed to a Samish Bay oyster was "guilt by association." Samish Bay oysters were only "on hand" in the restaurant where the raw oysters causing illness were consumed. Taylor Shellfish and Chuckanut Shellfish, among others, are now able to harvest oysters again. However, noted by the Department of Health: "Two cautionary notes: (1) It will take only one more illness to reclose Samish Bay; and (2) Unusually hot weather is expected over the next week, so caution should be exercised in the harvest and handling of oysters intended for raw consumption."
Posted by Protect Our Shoreline at 10:07 AM

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