Think twice about eating butter clams harvested in the area, particularly in Viking Cove, where there’s a shellfish advisory in place. 

The Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research network or SEATOR, posted the Haines-area advisory in early August.  But there are several others in place, including one that went out just last week and impacted Ankau and Puget Cove beaches in Yakutat

The advisories are based on shellfish and phytoplankton observations in locations…

Francisco Martínezcuello is the Chilkat Valley News summer reporter. Previously, he was in Southwest Alaska working for KYUK Public Media as a News Reporting Fellow from November 2022 through January...