If you haven’t had your fill of razor clams this winter, better grab the clam gun and run. There are just 10 days left in the 2015-16 season — May 6-12, and probably May 20-22.
“We’re getting close to the spawn, and it’s time to give the critters a rest,” said Department of Fish and Wildlife coastal shellfish manager Dan Ayres in Montesano. “Even though we got a late start, we managed to pull off 97 digging days at Long Beach, 18 on Copalis and 26 at Mocrocks.”
Twin Harbors beach never opened because of elevated levels of marine toxins. Ayres said clam populations at Copalis are becoming borderline, but that the other beaches are OK.
Tides for the first of the two final digging series are Friday, 6:51 a.m., minus 1.5 feet, at Long Beach only; Saturday, 7:30 a.m., minus 2.0 feet, Long Beach; Sunday, 8:26 a.m., minus 2.1 feet, Long Beach; Monday, 9:14 a.m., minus 1.9 feet, Mocrocks beach; Tuesday, 10:03 a.m., minus 1.5 feet, Mocrocks; Wednesday, 10:55 a.m., minus 0.9 feet, Mocrocks; and May 12, 11:49 a.m., minus 0.3 feet, Mocrocks.
Tides for the proposed final dig (go or no go will be announced about a week prior to the event) are May 20, 6:37 a.m., minus 0.3 feet, Mocrocks and Copalis beaches; May 21, 7:12 a.m., minus 0.6 feet, Mocrocks and Copalis; and May 22, 7:47 a.m., minus 0.8 feet, Mocrocks only.
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