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El Niño
El Niño and La Niña, and what the Pacific’s big swings mean for West Coast shellfish, starting with our 2026-27 series.
4 posts
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Ocean conditions
Water temperature, marine heatwaves, upwelling, sea level, oxygen and pH: the ocean around the bays and how it is changing.
2 posts
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Blooms and toxins
Harmful algal blooms and the toxins they can leave in shellfish, such as domoic acid and the toxins behind paralytic and diarrhetic shellfish poisoning.
1 post
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Rain and closures
Rainfall and runoff, the bacteria they carry into a bay, and the rainfall rules behind many harvest closures.
1 post
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Vibrio
Vibrio, bacteria that thrive in warm water, and what they mean for oysters eaten raw.
1 post
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Methods
How DataShoal gathers, checks and compares its data, and how sure we can be of what it shows.
3 posts
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Project news
What we have launched, where the roadmap goes next, and the growing areas we are adding.
2 posts