Children with shellfish allergy had reduced odds for outgrowing this allergy if they also had asthma, oral allergy syndrome ...

Those who want to lease public coastal waters to cultivate shellfish have until Aug. 1 to submit applications.

Shellfish harvested in Washington between Feb. 13 and March 3 may be linked to an illness outbreak ...

If there was a frontline in the fight over climate change, a good place to start might be oyster farms in places like the Pacific Northwest or the East Coast. A new study published Monday in Nature ...

On March 5 the Washington State Department of Health, via Whatcom County, ordered an emergency closure of recreational and commercial shellfish harvest in Drayton Harbor after illnesses were linked to ...

The emergency closure comes after several people became sick after eating shellfish from Drayton Harbor in Whatcom County.

Warm weather and low tides are good for harvesting shellfish, but nice weather is also ideal for naturally occurring bacteria to multiply, raising the risk of illness, warns the Washington State ...

Mussels from Prince Edward Island, cockles from New Zealand, periwinkles from Cape Cod and clams from Vancouver -- the shellfish on our dinner plates have flown in from all over for the occasion. And ...

The FDA has issued a recall for oysters and clams from Washington State due to potential norovirus contamination. See the list of affected states and products.

Some seafood products sold to California businesses were recalled over concerns they may be contaminated with the highly contagious norovirus, according to the FDA.