Fishery Notice

Effective January 29, 2019, the Restricted area within Sanitary Closure 17.4 in 
the Nanaimo River Estuary has reverted to OPEN status. The harvest of bivalve 
shellfish for licensed depuration may now resume within the following 
Restricted area- a portion of Sanitary Closure 17.4 described as:

The intertidal foreshore of Newcastle Island from Shaft Point at 49°11.68' 
north latitude and 123°56.83' west longitude to Nares Point at 49°12.17' north 
latitude and 123°56.61', and the waters and intertidal foreshore of Nanaimo 
Harbour and Newcastle Island Passage inside a line that commences at Jack Point 
at 49°10.00' north latitude and 123°53.68' west longitude, thence to Gallows 
Point on Protection Island at 49°10.23' north latitude and 123°55.08' west 
longitude thence following the western shore of Protection Island to Batchelor 
Point at 49°10.99' north latitude and 123°54.95' west longitude, thence to an 
unnamed point of land on Newcastle Island at 49°11.38' north latitude and 123°
55.34' west longitude, then following the southern shore of Newcastle Island to 
Shaft Point at 49°11.68' north latitude and 123°56.83' west longitude thence to 
Pimbury Point 49°11.60' north latitude and 123°56.94' then following the 
shoreline to the point of commencement at Jack Point. [NAD 83]

As per Appendix VIII of the CSSP Manual, ECCC recommends that the emergency 
closure of the restricted portion of Sanitary Closure 17.4 be revoked, and now 
return to open status for depuration harvest as the closure has been in place 
for a minimum of 21 days since flows ceased at the Chase River Pump Station.

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

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

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

and at local DFO offices.

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

Fisheries & Oceans Operations Center - FN0067
Sent January 29, 2019 at 0929

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