“It’s been a little over hundred years since residents or fishermen were able to catch shellfish safe to eat in the Boston Harbor…

Now, the state has declared that shellfish from parts of Boston Harbor can be safely caught and eaten again…

Harvesting in the harbor was banned almost entirely in 1925 after contaminated oysters led to a national typhoid epidemic. In the decades since, Boston Harbor has undergone a multi-billion dollar clean-up…

Up until now, only licensed commercial harvesters have been able to fish in certain areas of the harbor. Their catches went through a purification process before being sold and eaten.

Earlier this month, state officials updated the classification for parts of the outer harbor near Hingham, Hull and Winthrop to ‘conditionally approved’ — meaning residents and commercial harvesters alike will soon be able to collect shellfish from those areas.”

From WBUR.