BRUNSWICK — Shellfish harvesters should note that a red tide warning is in effect, according to a warning posted on the Town of Brunswick’s website. All harvesting of oysters, mussel and carnivorous snail is prohibited until further notice, according to the warning.
According to the Maine Department of Marine Resources’s website: “Red tide closures occur when high amounts of a toxin found in some types of naturally occurring, singlecelled, microscopic algae in the ocean are measured in shellfish tissue.”
The department tests for red tides weekly between March and October.
Call the Red Tide Hotline/ Shellfish Sanitation Hotline at (800) 232-4733. Brunswick’s Marine Resource Officer can be reached through the Brunswick Police at 725-5521.
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