Update: While the clam digs scheduled for Long Beach have remained canceled, the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has given the green light for all clam digs on the Mocrocks beach scheduled for this upcoming weekend. Here are the dates and evening low tides:

• Friday, Jan. 29 (5:58 pm, -1.5 ft.) – Twin Harbors, Copalis, Mocrocks
• Saturday, Jan. 30 (6:41 pm, -1.5 ft.) – Twin Harbors, Copalis, Mocrocks, Kalaloch
• Sunday, Jan. 31 (7:23 pm, -1.2 ft.) – Twin Harbors, Copalis, Mocrocks, Kalaloch

The weather in January may have been surprisingly beautiful, but it seems like clam digger’s won’t get the chance to enjoy it. A clam dig scheduled for today, January 27 at Long Beach, has now been canceled by the State Department of Fish & Wildlife after it was confirmed that marine toxin levels in the water are too high for safe clamming. Recent testing found unusually high levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning, or PSP, in clams collected at Long Beach last week. Unfortunately, this type of toxin cannot be removed by freezing or cooking the clams, though no human fatalities have been reported from PSP poisoning in the last 70 years.

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