Puget Sound Temperature Warnings
Puget Sound Temperature Warnings
Harvest Start Time
Graph illustrates the air temperature forecast (black line) and the tidal prediction (blue line) at the selected growing area plotted on top of temperature limits (red lines) for the required times to cooling of oysters from the Washington State Vibrio parahaemolyticus control plan. The air temperature plotted is the NWS/NDFD forecast and the tides are from the NOAA/NOS annual prediction. This tool is intended to assist oyster producers in choosing the optimal start time of harvest in order to achieve the lowest number of bacterial doublings.