shellfish

New Bedford Harbor is seeing an expansion of the areas closed to shellfishing in due to outfalls from wastewater treatment plants in New Bedford and Fairhaven.

The Department of Natural Resources said a person without a shellfish permit was found in the Crooked River with a collection of quahogs and conch.

Fairhaven Police are charging a Rhode Island man after he allegedly made threats to the Town's harbormaster.

Shellfishing of any kind has been banned throughout Buzzards Bay and other areas until further notice. The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries says a substantial bloom of potentially toxic phytoplankton was detected last week, with high concentrations detected throughout Buzzards Bay and Lackeys Bay...

Ten years after the Bouchard Oil spill, one of the last shellfishing area affected by the spill is about to be re opened.