Fishery Notice

Category(s):

ABORIGINAL - General Information
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:

FN0393-SANITARY - Area 14 - Chemical Contamination Emergency Closure for Bivalve Shellfish -Point in water near Komass Bluff, Northwest of Hornby Island is now revoked

Environment and Climate Change Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency 
have advised that the emergency chemical closure 14.jj, enacted on October 12, 
2012 as a result of potential contamination, is no longer necessary. Therefore, 
emergency closure 14.jj for bivalve shellfish, as described below, is now 
revoked.  

Emergency Chemical Closure 14.jj - Point in water near Komass Bluff, Northwest 
of Hornby Island

The waters inside a 125 meter radius centered from a point in water in Subarea 
14-10 located at 49° 35.387' north latitude and 124° 47.662' west longitude, 
the last known location of a wreck near Komas Bluff. (NAD 83)
 
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 - FN0393
Sent April 30, 2019 at 1542

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