Fishery Notice

Effective November 1, 2016 until further notice: Due to shellfish product on BC 
Land Registry aquaculture tenure # 1402060 exceeding the bacteriological 
standard for E.coli in raw shellfish, the Pacific Interdepartmental Shellfish 
Committee has agreed that a closure is warranted.

Harvest of bivalve shellfish is now prohibited until further notice from a 
portion of Subarea 14-8 in Baynes Sound which includes BC Land Registry 
Shellfish Aquaculture Tenure # 1402060

Sanitary Closure Area 14.qq - Aquaculture Lease Land File # 1402060  

The waters and intertidal foreshore of BC Land Registry Aquaculture Tenure # 
1402060, Subarea 14-8, Baynes Sound, with legal description "that part of 
District Lot 149, together with unsurveyed Crown foreshore or land covered by 
water being part of the bed of Baynes Sound, Nanaimo District.

January 1 to December 31

Detailed bivalve shellfish closure information and maps are available at our 
website: 

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/psp

and at local DFO offices.

For more information contact a local DFO office, Elysha Gordon at 250-756-7192

Fisheries & Oceans Operations Center - FN1221
Sent November 1, 2016 at 1453

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