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Annual Quarantine on Sport-Harvested Mussels Begins- 4/30/15 08:00 S.G.

Friday, May 1st, marks the beginning of the annual quarantine on sport-harvested mussels along the California Coast. State health officials have issued the quarantine to protect the public from paralytic shellfish poisoning and domoic acid poisoning.  Both toxins are linked to plankton consumed by bivalve mollusks, including mussels and clams. Commercially harvested shellfish are not included in the quarantine.

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