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 2025-12-09 4:21PM PST by Environment Canada:

Yellow level warning - rainfall - issued for:  
Sunshine Coast - Gibsons to Earls Cove, B.C. (082310)

Impact Level: Moderate
Forecast Confidence: High

Rain, at times heavy, is expected.

What: Rainfall amounts from 50 to 80 mm. 

When: Tuesday evening through Wednesday evening. 

Where: Sunshine Coast (Gibsons to Earls Cove).

Remarks: An atmospheric river will arrive on the South Coast of BC bringing heavy rain tonight through Wednesday. Warm air with the system will cause freezing levels to rise and snowmelt combined with the rain may result in high streamflows and localized flooding. 

The highest rainfall amounts can be expected near the Coast Mountains with the southwest and upslope flow enhancing precipitation rates. 

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

Don't drive through flooded roadways. 


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 - FN1294
Sent December 10, 2025 at 0855

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