date:Dec 18, 2012
for harm.
We advise people to abstain from collecting any.
The levels are unacceptable but it is up to each individual person to make their own level of choice.
Since August 2012 high levels of paralytic shellfish poison have been found in shellfish along a significant stretch of coastline.
A health warning is already in place advising against the collection of shellfish from Tairua on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, south to Waihi Beach and along the Bay of Plenty coast to Whak