Fishery Notice

Please be advised that intense rainfall events resulting in flooding and/or sewage collection system overflows, can adversely affect marine water quality and potentially result in temporary emergency shellfish harvesting closures.

Although there is no proposed closure at this time, shellfish harvesters are advised to monitor weather conditions and warnings, and to plan their harvesting activities accordingly.

Issued at 2025-10-30 3:54PM PDT by Environment Canada: 

Rainfall warning - issued for:  

         Sunshine Coast - Gibsons to Earls Cove, B.C. (082310)
   	Howe Sound, B.C. (082511-082514-082520)
   	Metro Vancouver - North Shore including West Vancouver and North Vancouver, B.C. (082512-082610)
  	Metro Vancouver - northeast including Coquitlam and Maple Ridge, B.C. (082513-082630-082711-082714)

Rain, at times heavy, is expected.

What: Significant rainfall is expected (50 to 80 mm)

Where: Metro Vancouver - North Shore (including North and West Vancouver) and Northeast (including Coquitlam and Maple Ridge), Howe Sound (southern sections including Bowen Island), and the Sunshine Coast (southern sections including Gibsons).

When: Beginning Friday morning and continuing into Friday evening. 

Remarks: A moisture laden frontal system is pushing onto the the BC coast. Rainfall is expected to begin Friday morning and intensify through the afternoon. Rain at times heavy can be expected into Friday evening when the precipitation will begin to taper off to a few showers.

Water will likely pool on roads and in low-lying areas. Visibility will likely be suddenly reduced at times.

Allow extra time for travel.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to BCstorm@ec.gc.ca or post reports on X using #BCStorm.

More details on the alert are available here.
The latest status and details on all alerts, including alerts that are not part of your subscription, can be found here: https://weather.gc.ca/index_e.html?layers=alert 
Please refer to any of the sources listed below for the latest public weather advisories:   
 
•	Environment Canada Weather Warnings: https://www.weather.gc.ca/index_e.html?alertTableFilterProv=BC
•	Environment Canada Public Forecasts: www.weather.gc.ca/forecast/canada/index_e.html?id=BC
•	BC River Forecast Centre Flood Warnings & Advisories: http://bcrfc.env.gov.bc.ca/warnings/index.htm 
•	Environment Canada Weather blog: www.avalanche.ca/weather 
•	Weather broadcast on most local media outlets
•	Weather Radio broadcasts: https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/weatheradio.html 
 
Recorded weather forecasts and warnings are also available on VHF radio, by telephone and listings can be found in the Government offices pages of telephone directories.

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://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/shellfish-mollusques/cssp-map-eng.htm. 

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 DFO.PACCSSP-PCAMPAC.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca.

Fisheries & Oceans Operations Center - FN1165
Sent October 31, 2025 at 1110

Return to Main Menu

Visit Fisheries and Oceans Canada on the Web at http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Printed from the Pacific Region web site on April 19, 2026 at 0149