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Date: June 12, 2010

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ESS Persuit Unified Command begins scanning clams
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. - The Unified Command in New Bedford is surveying 504,000 pounds of clams for ordnance and traces of sulfur mustard June 12, 2010, at the Sea Watch International seafood processing facility where the catch has been isolated since June 7, 2010. The clams were dredged June 6, 2010, by the fishing vessel ESS Pursuit along with eight canisters containing sulfur mustard, about 45 miles south of Fire Island, N.Y.

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