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 ...

The Washington State Department of Health has closed recreational harvest of molluscan shellfish in all of Whatcom County due to unsafe levels of a paralytic biotoxin. Molluscan shellfish include ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state Health Department is advising restaurants and retailers in Hawaii not to serve or sell certain oysters and bay clams ...

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 ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Lethal concentrations of a nerve biotoxin deadly for both humans and animals found in shellfish samples have prompted the closure of Fort Flagler, Mystery Bay and Kilisut Harbor ...

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized a molluscan shellfish equivalence determination for two European Union (EU) Member States, Spain and the Netherlands. Today's announcement is a ...

Scientists have assessed the use of next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods for norovirus in shellfish. They found such techniques are ready to substitute current methods despite some limitations.

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 ...