Originally Posted By: cohoangler
Thanks FishDoc. I wasn’t questioning the criteria by which WDFW/Dept of Health decides whether the amount of domoic acid toxin in the clams is sufficient to close the beaches. Or not.

I just noted that Long Beach has been closed for almost a year due to domoic acid levels in the clams. But then WDFW suddenly opens Long Beach to clamming in late April, which is coincidentally occurs during the Long Beach Clam Festival. And then they close the beaches again after the festival.

Why was that during that one, brief shining moment the clams were safe to consume (at 25 clams per day), but every other day for the past year, they weren’t? And still aren't. It appears to me they decided the economic value of the clam festival in Long Beach outweighed the health and safety of the clam-digging public.

One word: Politics.
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