[CINC] Domoic Acid Health Advisory for Northern Channel Islands

[Shauna Bingham]

FYI and Thank you to the CINC volunteers that help collect data in support
of the CDPH's Harmful Algal Bloom monitoring program.

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*Domoic Acid Health Advisory for Northern Channel Islands*


The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is advising consumers not
to eat recreationally harvested mussels and clams, commercially or
recreationally caught anchovy and sardines, or the internal organs of
commercially or recreationally caught crab and lobster taken from the
northern Channel Islands located offshore of Ventura and Santa Barbara
counties. Dangerous levels of the nerve toxin domoic acid have been
detected in some of these species and may be present in the other species
not yet tested.****

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This advisory is in addition to the current health advisory for the same
seafood items along the Ventura coast that was issued on August 20 and the
annual quarantine on the sport-harvesting of mussels along the entire
California coastline that took effect May 1.****

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The entire press release can be accessed at the following link:****

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http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/NR12-052.aspx

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Shauna Bingham
NOAA's Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
113 Harbor Way, Suite 150
Santa Barbara, CA 93109
805-884-1460
805-568-1582 (fax)
http://channelislands.noaa.gov/
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