Shellfish Program Publications
and Forms
Biotoxin Program
Commercial Shellfish Licensing
Growing Areas
Newsletters
Rules
and Regulations
Biotoxin
Program
Diarrhetic Shellfish Poison, or DSP.
This biotoxin, commonly found in European waters, has recently been
detected at unsafe levels in Washington shellfish. For more information
on this emerging biotoxin, visit
NOAA's web site.
Biotoxins
- Myths & Misconceptions
Test your biotoxin knowledge....some answers may surprise you! Domoic
Acid (ASP) in Shellfish
An overview of domoic acid - what it is, what it does, where
it comes from. Paralytic
Shellfish Poisoning (PSP)
Also known as "red tide", this fact sheet describes PSP
in Q & A format.
Summer
Precautions for Recreational Harvesters
Special precautions you need to know for harvesting in warm
summer months. Vibriosis
in Shellfish
A fact sheet describing an intestinal illness caused by the bacteria Vibrio
parahaemolyticus
See Also:
Fish
Consumption Advisories
This Office of Environmental
Health Assessment Web site lists fish consumption
advisories issued for specific water bodies in Washington State due to chemical
contamination
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Commercial Shellfish
Licensing
New license applications are not available online. If you are
interested in obtaining a commercial shellfish license, please contact
our office at (360) 236-3330.
Application for Harvest Site Approval. Licensed shellfish companies that want to add a harvest site to their
approved harvest areas must complete and submit this application to our
office. These Word documents are form-enabled. They can be completed electronically
but must be printed and signed. After signature they can be sent either through regular mail or
scanned and attached to an email.
Non-tribal application for
commercial harvest site (.doc 111 kb)
Tribal application for commercial
harvest site (.doc 108
kb)
Tribal application for bait harvest
site
(.doc 108 kb) HACCP Class Registration. We offer this required HACCP training twice each year for members of the shellfish
industry. The registration fee has been increased to $50 to cover
the cost of the HACCP manuals given to each participant.
We anticipate the next 2-day class will
be held in April 2012; the registration form will be posted here
as soon as the dates have been finalized. For
more information contact Richard Lillie at 360-236-3313 or email
richard.lillie@doh.wa.gov. Washington State Commercial Shellfish
Companies. This list is published by DOH and is
updated monthly (in pdf format - requires free
Acrobat
reader).
Alphabetical
by company name (pdf, 104kb)
Numerical
by license number (pdf, 104kb)
Interstate
Certified Shellfish Shippers List. This
FDA Web site lists
certified commercial shellfish shippers in the U.S., Canada, Chile, the
Republic of Korea, Mexico, and New Zealand.
License
Renewal Application Instructions (pdf, 65 kb). For existing commercial dealers,
gives step-by-step instructions for completing license renewal
forms.
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Growing Areas
Annual
Report:
Commercial and Recreational Shellfish Areas in Washington State.
This report is compiled each year to fulfill elements of the Puget Sound
Partnership's Management Plan and Conservation and Recovery Plan. (pdf,
552 kb).
This report, also known as the Annual Inventory, is different than the
annual
reports on individual growing areas.
A growing area map is part of the Annual Report; it's listed separately due to
its size.
Annual Inventory Growing Areas Map
(pdf, 1.3 mb)
Assessment of Potential Health Impacts of Virus Discharge from
Cruise Ships to Shellfish Growing Areas in Puget Sound.
DOH's report to the legislature on the 2005 cruise ship study. (pdf,
2.7 mb)
Fecal Pollution
Status and Trends Reports
Status and Trends in Fecal Coliform Pollution
Shellfish Growing Areas in Puget Sound: Year 2010. DOH's
report of commercial shellfish growing areas affected by
fecal pollution. (pdf, 756 kb)
Summary fecal coliform reports were also done
for these individual growing areas:
Drayton Harbor
2008
(pdf 665 kb)
Dungeness Bay
2008
(pdf 916 kb)
Dyes Inlet 2009 (pdf 639 kb)
Eld Inlet 2009 (pdf 526 kb)
Henderson Inlet Reduced Fecal
Pollution - Remediation or Reduced Rainfall (2011) (pdf
817 kb)
Nisqually Reach 2010 (pdf 518 kb)
Oakland Bay 2008 (pdf 465 kb)
Port Susan 2008 (pdf 485 kb)
Posters:
Tracking Fecal Coliform Pollution Trends in Growing Areas Using the
Fecal Pollution Index (FPI). These poster-size documents describe how
FPI is calculated and used to determine fecal pollution trends in
shellfish growing areas.
All of Puget Sound through 2010
(pdf 403 kb)
Henderson Inlet Reduced
Fecal Pollution Poster (pdf 607 kb)
South Puget Sound through 2009 (pdf
158 kb)
PSP Patterns in Puget Sound Shellfish.
DOH's report for the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program
(pdf, 1.3 mb)
Shellfish Chemical Contaminants Data
Report, 1992 and 1993. Published in May 1996 for the Puget
Sound Ambient Monitoring Program, this report presents chemical data
analysis performed in 1992 and 1993 on shellfish in Puget Sound (pdf,
3.16 mb).
Shellfish Growing Area Annual Reports, Early
Warning System Summary Reports. DOH's annual sanitary review of
individual commercial shellfish growing areas.
Alphabetical list
Listed by county (the Early
Warning System Summary Reports are included here)
Find it on a map
Published with
the annual reports are a list of areas that are "threatened" or
"of concern", and a map that shows the general locations of these
areas.
Shellfish
Growing Areas Listed as Threatened or of Concern
Map of
Threatened Shellfish Growing Areas
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Newsletters
The
Shellfish Program News was scheduled for publication twice each year. This newsletter
resumed publication after a long hiatus, starting with the winter 2010
edition.
Our February 2011 newsletter brought changes. In this edition we
combined news items from the Shellfish Program with those from our other
office program, Wastewater Management. Issues between the two
programs often overlap, so it made sense to issue one publication to
relate news on both fronts.
This new format allows for more efficient use of staff time, and
provides all of our stakeholders with information that is often of
mutual interest.
Winter 2010 (Shellfish program
only)
February 2011
August 2011
Rules and
Regulations
Washington State Shellfish Rules
Chapter 246-282 WAC,
Sanitary Control of Shellfish
(Code Reviser's web site)
Chapter
246-280 WAC, Recreational Shellfish
Beaches (Code Reviser's web site)
Federal Shellfish
Rules
National
Shellfish Sanitation Program 2007 Guide for the Control of
Molluscan Shellfish -
Links to U.S. FDA web site offering html or pdf versions.
This document replaces the 2005 version and is adopted by reference in
WAC
246-282-005.
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