HARSTINE ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — John King plunges his arm up to his shoulder into the mudflats of Puget Sound, roots around and soon pulls from the muck the world’s largest burrowing clam. The mollusk ...

All recreational shellfish harvesting has been temporarily suspended along Kitsap County’s eastern shoreline after tests taken on Monday found high concentrations of a potentially deadly marine ...

Chris Warner has been harvesting seafood in coastal Maine since he was a teenager. It’s never been easy, but he’s never let the obstacles stand in his way. Sometimes, he told The Economic Hardship ...

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 ...

The contamination has been found in oysters and bay clams in Arizona, California, Nevada, and NY, among other places.

PORT TOWNSEND — Discovery Bay beaches have been closed for recreational shellfish harvesting due to high paralytic shellfish poison levels in shellfish samples sent to the state Department of Health.

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 ...

Marine water quality is improving across most of Washington’s commercial shellfish harvesting areas, although some locations will require additional restrictions, including Westport and Ocean Shores.