If you eat the recommended amount of servings per week or month, don't eat any additional fish, shellfish, or crab that week from Puget Sound or the grocery store.
Example: If you eat one serving of Chinook Salmon, no other seafood should be eaten that week.
Location Specific Advice
- Commencement Bay Waterways (Thea, Foss, Blair, and Hylebos Waterways) - Do not eat crab, shellfish, or bottom-feeding fish
- Inner Commencement Bay - Limit flatfish to two servings per month
- Outer Commencement Bay (boundary between Boathouse Marina and Brown's Point) - Limit flatfish to one serving per week.
* Flatfish include English Sole, Starry Flounder, and Rock Sole
Marine Area 11 Advice
2-3 Servings Per Week
- Coho, chum, pink, and sockeye salmon
- Flatfish
OR
1 Serving Per Week
- Chinook Salmon
OR
2 Servings Per Month
- Resident Chinook (Blackmouth) Salmon
OR
Do Not Eat
- Recreational and commercial harvest of all species of rockfish (Marine Areas 6-13) is illegal due to conservation reasons. See the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife fishing regulations for further details.
Marine Area 11 Map