The mission of the Seafood and Aquatic Life Group is to protect the consumer from disease or other health hazards transmissible by oysters, clams, mussels and scallops and crab meat produced in or imported into Texas. The Seafood and Aquatic Life Group also protects recreational fishers from disease or contaminants found in fish and other aquatic species caught in Texas' lakes, rivers, bays or nearshore state waters. We carry out this mission by classification of shellfish growing areas, certification of molluscan shellfish shippers and crab meat processors, and testing tissue samples from fish and seafood harvesting areas.
Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference (ISSC) information on Vibrio Vulnificus.
New Information concerning the Gulf of Mexico is now posted.
You may also view the News Release (PDF 39KB) and Frequently Asked Questions (PDF 85KB) for Gulf of Mexico.
(Posted May 7, 2013)
New Information concerning the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico is now posted.
You may also view the News Release (PDF 94KB) and Frequently Asked Questions (PDF 54KB) for Northwestern Gulf of Mexico.
(Posted September 6, 2012)
New Information concerning shellfish, product of Korea, FDA cautions consumers against consuming.
Please see the following website for more information: http://www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/ConstituentUpdates/ucm304600.htm
New Information concerning Sabine Lake is now posted.
You may also view the News Release (PDF 29KB) and Frequently Asked Questions (PDF 54KB) for Sabine Lake.
(Posted December 29, 2011)
New Information concerning Lake Worth is now posted.
You may also view the News Release (PDF 33KB) and Frequently Asked Questions (PDF 63KB) for Lake Worth.
(Posted November 18, 2010)
New information concerning Mountain Creek Lake is now posted You may also view the News Release (PDF) and Frequently Asked Questions for Mountain Creek Lake.
(Posted October 1, 2010)
New information concerning the Trinity River is now posted.
You may also view the News Release (PDF 34KB) and Frequently Asked Questions (PDF 64KB) for the Trinity River.
(Posted July 7, 2010)
The Texas Dinophysis Bloom, March 2008 slide presentation is now available on the Red Tide information page.
(Posted May 20, 2008)
MAILING ADDRESS:
Environmental and Consumer Safety Section
Seafood and Aquatic Life Group MC 1987
Texas Department of State Health Services
P. O. Box 149347
Austin, Texas 78714-9347
Phone: (512) 834-6757
Environmental and Consumer Safety SectionSeafood and Aquatic Life Group MC 1987Texas Department of State Health Services P. O. Box 149347 Austin, Texas 78714-9347 Phone: (512) 834-6757
MAIN FAX: (512) 834-6762
PHYSICAL ADDRESS
(WE ONLY RECEIVE SPECIAL SERVICE DELIVERIES, SUCH AS UPS OR FEDERAL EXPRESS, AT THIS ADDRESS)
The Exchange Building
8407 Wall Street
Austin, Texas 78754
Map and directions to the Exchange Building