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June 9, 2008
   
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PSP Notices
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2006 PSP Notices  
11/28/06 PSP Opening - Surf Clams off Gloucester pdf icon
11/09/06 PSP Opening - Whelks in Mass Bay
11/01/06 PSP Opening - Whole Scallops in Cape Cod Bay pdf icon
10/06/06 PSP Opening - Surf Clams in N1 - N7, N21
09/07/06 PSP Opening - Nantucket Sound, Nantucket Shoals, and Muskeget Channel pdf icon
08/10/06 PSP Opening - New Hampshire to Cape Ann
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07/20/06 PSP Opening - North Shore
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07/18/06 PSP Opening - NH to Essex Bay
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07/07/06 PSP Opening - Cohasset to Duxbury
06/30/06 Update on Declining Toxin Levels in Shellfish For Ipswich, Essex and Gloucester
05/19/06 PSP Closure - Deer Island to Duxbury
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05/16/06 PSP Closure - New Hampshire to Deer Island
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04/27/06 PSP Closure - Nauset System
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02/07/06 PSP Opening - Nantucket Sound and Monomoy
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2006 Rainfall Closures *
07/18/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - NH to Essex Bay
07/07/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Cohasset to Duxbury
06/16/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Parts of Buzzards Bay
06/16/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Parts of Cape Cod
06/15/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Parts of Martha's Vineyard
06/15/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Parts of Buzzards Bay
06/15/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Parts of Cape Cod
06/14/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Parts of Buzzards Bay
06/14/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Parts of Cape Cod
06/13/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Parts of Buzzards Bay
06/13/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Parts of Cape Cod
06/13/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Boston Harbor
06/07/06 Rainfall Closure - Martha's Vineyard
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06/07/06 Rainfall Closure - Cape Cod
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06/07/06 Rainfall Closure - Buzzards Bay
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05/25/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Parts of Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays
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05/24/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Parts of Buzzards Bay
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05/23/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Gosnold, Falmouth
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05/23/06 Rainfall Closure Lifted - Parts of Buzzards Bay
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05/15/06 Rainfall Closure - Hull to Barnstable
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05/15/06 Rainfall Closure - Buzzards Bay
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05/15/06 Rainfall Closure - Gosnold, Falmouth
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05/14/06 Rainfall Closure - New Hampshire to Cohasset
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* this list includes only those rainfall closures that encompass large areas and cross multiple towns. This list DOES NOT include all local and smaller-scale rainfall closures. Contact your local shellfish officer or shellfish area biologist for current rainfall closures in your area. For additional information on surf clam or ocean quahog closures, contact Dave Whittaker.
 

2005 PSP Notices

 
 

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