Bivalve Shellfish - Marine Biotoxin - Update for Areas 12 and Summary - September 12, 2019

Date: 
Friday, September 13, 2019

Category(s):

AQUACULTURE - Shellfish

Fishery Notice - Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Subject: FN0918-Bivalve Shellfish: Marine Biotoxin - Update for Areas 12 and Summary - September 12, 2019.

UPDATE:

The following information in this fishery notice reflects Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP, red tide), Domoic Acid Poisoning (also known as Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning (ASP)), Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning (DSP) and other marine toxin closures for bivalve shellfish (oysters, clams, scallops, mussels, and geoduck). Note that this fishery notice does not describe sewage contamination closures. For information on sewage contamination and biotoxin closures please go to:

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/contamination/index-eng.htm

Area 12

Effective immediately there is a harvest prohibition for all bivalve shellfish in Subareas 12-22, 12-23 and that portion of Subarea 12-39 South of a line drawn at Sharp Point on Broughton Island at (50° 47.467'N, 126° 36.090' W) proceeding westerly down Fife Sound into Nowell Channel intersecting the boundary with PFMA 12-7 at (50° 45.006' N, 126° 47.224' W) 

This closure is due to a rapid rise in toxin levels in the monitoring areas.  The next planned samples cannot be obtained/analyzed within a time frame that ensures consumer safety.

 

Area 12

Subareas 12-6 and 12-26 open to butter clams and cockles only, closed to all other bivalve shellfish; 

Subarea 12-39 (Closure 12-39.A) (described below) closed to all bivalve shellfish; That portion of Subarea 12-39 north of a line drawn at Sharp Point on Broughton Island at (50° 47.467'N, 126° 36.090' W) proceeding westerly down Fife Sound into Nowell Channel intersecting the boundary with Subarea 12-7 at (50° 45.006' N, 126° 47.224' W) (a map can be found at:

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/includes/12-39.A.jpeg)

Subarea 12-39 (Closure 12-39.B) (described below) closed to all bivalve

shellfish; That portion of Subarea 12-39 south of a line drawn at Sharp Point on Broughton Island at (50° 47.467'N, 126° 36.090' W) proceeding westerly down Fife Sound into Nowell Channel intersecting the boundary with Subarea 12-7 at (50° 45.006' N, 126° 47.224' W) (a map can be found at: 

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/includes/12-39.B.jpeg)

Balance of Area 12 closed to all bivalve shellfish.

*A bivalve is an animal belonging to the class Bivalvia. Its name is a reference to the two shells, called valves, that protect its soft inner body parts.