February 2, 2023 2:50 p.m. 

The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has reopened all recreational crabbing in the ocean, bays and estuaries, along the entire Oregon coast.

A release said two consecutive tests show domoic acid levels are under the closure threshold.

Recreational bay clam and mussel harvesting also remain open along the entire Oregon coast. However, razor clamming is still closed coastwide.

ODFW said the southern portion of Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery, set to open on Saturday with an evisceration order, is now also cleared from an evisceration requirement. Commercially harvested crab from all areas on the coast can now be sold whole.

ODA tests for shellfish toxins twice per month, as tides and weather permit. Reopening an area closed for biotoxins requires two consecutive tests with results below the closure limit.

For more information, call ODA’s shellfish biotoxin safety hotline at 800-448-2474, or visit the ODA shellfish biotoxin webpage: https://www.oregon.gov/ODA/programs/FoodSafety/Shellfish/Pages/ShellfishClosures.aspx?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery