Areas
This is a small, deliberately educational, water-body-level set (4 areas) — not a directory of individual access points or harvest spots, and not a substitute for VMRC's and VDH's own official maps. Public access, harvest authorization, private-lease status, and current health status are four separate questions, stated separately below for every area.
This guide does not display live shellfish health-closure status. Health classifications (approved / conditionally approved / restricted / prohibited) can change quickly — after rainfall, after a monitoring result, or without public notice in an emergency — and this project has no way to keep a cached status current or to guarantee it is accurate at the moment you read it.
Before harvesting anywhere, check VDH's own current interactive shellfish harvesting area map → directly. If you can't confirm current status with confidence, treat the area as closed and do not harvest there.
