Ideally, the process of cooking fresh clams should start with closed, live, healthy clams, and end with open, dead clams (hopefully soaking in a delicious sauce or crowning one of the many ...

For information on shellfish advisories and quarantines, call CDPH’s toll-free Shellfish Information Line at 800-553-4133, view the recreational bivalve shellfish advisory interactive map, or ...

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California health officials are urging residents to avoid eating shellfish harvested recreationally from the coast due to the toxic algae bloom that is poisoning sea life. The California ...