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State officials have lifted a temporary fishing ban that was imposed after a container ship spilled

HEADLINE: San Francisco Bay fishing ban lifted
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CAPTION: State officials have lifted a temporary fishing ban that was imposed after a container ship spilled nearly 60,000 gallons of toxic fuel into San Francisco Bay. (Nov. 29)
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[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]

Some nets and fishing lines are back in the water now----
[Notes:nats water splash...crabs pulled up]

California officials have lifted a temporary fishing ban that was mandated here in the San Francisco Bay area ---after a container ship spilled nearly 60,000 gallons of toxic fuel into the water.

The sticky black oil covered everything----it touched-----including--birds, fish and even crabs.....

The spill---and the consequential ban on fishing hurt business here-----

[Notes:SOT: Michael Guardino, Crab Shack Manager, says: I don't want any of my customers effected by it as far as contamination or anything like that.]

[Notes:Jason Morford, Crabber, says: We came down here hoping to make 10 or 20 thousand dollars. Now we're going home broke. Paid six grand for the trip down here. We got families at home to feed. We want to go crabbing.]

But the fishing suspension was lifted Thursday.

Health officials have determined that there is no significant health risk from eating seafood caught in the water here.

State biologists say they tested more than eleven-hundred samples of fish, mussels and Dungeness crab ---in waters around the Golden Gate.

There is one exception---as testing did find unsafe levels of contaminants in mussels from Rodeo Beach and the Berkeley pier.

The public has been warned to to avoid eating shellfish from those areas.

So business will continue as usual----officials say the commercial Dungeness crab and herring seasons can continue as scheduled.


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