Fishery Notice

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has received reports of illness linked to BC Aquaculture Tenure Landfile #1401757. Therefore, effective immediately there is a harvest prohibition for oysters from BC Aquaculture Tenure Landfile #1401757, in a portion of Subarea 23-3, in Ritherdon Bay, Barkley Sound, until further notice. This includes the transfer of oysters to or from the Aquaculture Facility listed above, with the exception of seed transfers to the facility. As per Section 6.4.3 of the Canadian Shellfish Sanitation Program Manual, the CFIA is recommending that the following area be placed into closed status  https://inspection.canada.ca/food-guidance-by-commodity/fish/canadian-shellfish-sanitation-program/eng/1527251566006/1527251566942?chap=0#s6c3.

On the mapping site SHELLI (https://gisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Html5Viewer/Index.html?viewer=CSSP_Public_En_Site&locale=en) you can find this closure by searching for Prohibition Order PSN-2024-720. 

Emergency Closure Area 23.ll - Aquaculture Tenure Landfile #1401757

The waters and intertidal foreshore of that portion of Subarea 23-3 inside a line that commences at 48°57.180'N and 124°58.874'W [in water] then in a straight line to 48°57.173'N and 124°58.615'W [in water] then in a straight line to 48°55.139'N and 124°58.621'W [on land] then following the shoreline to 48°57.073'N and 124°58.872'W [on land] then in a straight line to the point of commencement; ;  including BC Land Registry Aquaculture Tenure #1401757. [NAD 83]

Note that this notice does not describe other sanitary closures which may be in effect, or Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP, red tide) and other marine biotoxin closures. For an area to be open and safe for harvesting, both biotoxin and sanitary need to be open. For information on sanitary contamination and biotoxin closures please go to the Fisheries and Oceans Canada mapping site SHELLI to determine where there is safe harvest at https://gisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Html5Viewer/Index.html?viewer=CSSP_Public_En_Site&locale=en. 

Specific species limits, restrictions and maps for each subarea are available at https://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/rec/bc-zones-cb-eng.html and at local DFO offices.

For more information contact a local DFO office or DFOPAC.CSSP-PCAMPAC.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca.

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Sent January 16, 2025 at 1635

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