Fishery Notice

Category(s):

ABORIGINAL - General Information
AQUACULTURE - Shellfish
COMMERCIAL - Invertebrates: Clam - Intertidal
COMMERCIAL - Invertebrates: Clam - Razor
COMMERCIAL - Invertebrates: Geoduck and Horseclam
COMMERCIAL - Invertebrates: Oyster
COMMERCIAL - Invertebrates: Scallop by Trawl
General Information
RECREATIONAL - Shellfish
Sanitary/Other Contamination Closures

Subject:

FN0670-SANITARY - Emergency Closure for all bivalve shellfish in a portion of Lancelot Inlet, Subarea 15-4 which includes a portion of BC Land Registry Shellfish Aquaculture Tenure #2401542.

Effective immediately there is a harvest prohibition for all bivalve shellfish 
from a portion of BC Aquaculture Tenure Land File #2401542, in Subarea 15-4, a 
portion of Lancelot Inlet, until further notice. Due to potential 
contamination, the Pacific Region Interdepartmental Shellfish Committee agree a 
closure is warranted for all bivalve shellfish until further information can be 
obtained and assessed. 

Emergency Closure Area 15.kk - Portion of Aquaculture Lease Land File # 2401542

Lancelot Inlet - The waters and intertidal foreshore of the cove located south 
of Bunster Point in Lancelot Inlet, inside a line drawn from a point on land at 
50° 3.088' north latitude and 124° 42.650' west longitude, thence southeasterly 
to a point on land at 50° 3.012' north latitude and 124° 42.559' west longitude.
[NAD83]

Detailed bivalve shellfish closure information and maps are available at our 
website: 

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

and at local DFO offices.

For more information contact a local DFO office, Elysha Gordon at 250-756-7192.

Fisheries & Oceans Operations Center - FN0670
Sent July 18, 2019 at 1531

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