NO eating shellfish off of New Hampshire - red tide invasion

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this is from an email alert from RSOE HAVARIA Emergency Disaster Info. Serv.


The Red Tide has hit New Hampshire's seacoast. State officials said shellfish cannot be harvested from the state's coastal waters until further notice. Testing has found elevated levels of the Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning known as "red tide," in blue mussels collected from the Isles of Shoals and Hampton-Seabrook Harbor. The Department of Environmental Services said it's too soon to know how severe the red tide bloom will be or how long it might last. Harvesting areas along the shoreline have been closed since June 7 because of high bacteria levels following heavy rainfall. Since then, an offshore bloom of the marine algae that causes red tide began to affect the area. Red tide is a condition in which shellfish such as clams, oysters and mussels accumulate a potent toxin produced by algae. Eating the toxin can kill people.
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if its not red tide its poop contaminating shellfish