The first razor clam digging of the season in Washington is scheduled for Friday and Saturday.
First, tests must show the clams are safe to eat.
The Washington coast has been closed to clam digging and other shellfish harvesting because of marine toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning.
The green light for digging will be given when new testing shows safe levels, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said Monday.
Those results could come as early as Wednesday.
“We’re again starting to see increasing amounts of the algae that produces domoic acid (a neurotoxin) in our ocean waters,” said Dan Ayres, the the agency’s coastal shellfish manager. “We want to conduct one more test to make sure the clams are safe to eat.”
The department will post the results of the test at bit.ly/1ev7K2F.
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