oysters

Oyster growers in Southwest Washington drop appeal for use of controversial pesticide

Bellamy Pailthorp

Oyster growers in Southwest Washington have given up on their push to use a controversial neurotoxin to control burrowing shrimp. The shrimp can turn…

In this file photo from May 2015, Eric Hall, a manager for Taylor Shellfish, displays burrowing shrimp from the mud below his feet at low tide in Willapa Bay. Last April, state ecology officials denied a permit for imidacloprid to control the shrimp.

Environment

Oyster growers push for pesticide permits to control burrowing shrimp this summer

Bellamy Pailthorp

Oyster growers want to force the state Department of Ecology to allow the use of pesticides in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor. A bill before the state…

Environment

Two weeks of testimony scheduled in oyster growers’ appeal for pesticide permit

Bellamy Pailthorp

Oyster growers on the Washington coast will have a chance to convince regulators to let them use a controversial pesticide to control native burrowing…

Environment

Questions Remain About Pesticide Proposal To Combat Burrowing Shrimp Infestation

Bellamy Pailthorp

A proposal to spray a neurotoxic pesticide on oyster beds in Southwest Washington is back on the table. Growers in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor are…

Environment

Return to the Salish Sea: Olympia Oyster Grower Shina Wysocki

Bellamy Pailthorp

The ocean is becoming more acidic and fossil fuel emissions are making it worse. That can be lethal for oyster larvae because it inhibits their ability to…

In its prime, the Hero sailed through frigid temperatures and ice-strewn waters in the South Pole. But now it's sinking, leaking oil and threatening Washington's oysters.

Environment

A Forgotten Shipwreck Imperils Washington's Oysters

Molly Solomon

The sunken Hero, an Antarctic research vessel from the 1960s, is leaking oil into Willapa Bay, where more than half of the state's oysters are grown. And no one knows how to remove it.

Inside that mysterious goo, oysters have a story

Keith Seinfeld

The oyster is more than a seafood favorite. It’s an ecological lynchpin in Puget Sound and on beaches around the world, so scientists are thankful the…

oyster farms up and down the coast have been hit by the problem.

Environment

Study blames ocean CO2 for oyster declines

The Associated Press

Scientists are blaming slightly higher levels of carbon dioxide in Pacific Ocean waters caused by global warming for the failure of oyster larvae to…

Food

Washington oysters sicken 5 people

The Associated Press

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington health officials say five people in the state got sick from eating raw oysters that were harvested from an area of Puget…

Warning: Some raw oysters will make you sick, says the Washington state Health Department .

Food

Some raw Washington oysters may make you sick

The Associated Press

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington state Health Department has closed some beaches to oyster harvesting at Samish Bay and the Hood Canal near Hoodsport…