Board OKs fish-cleaning variance for seafood shop
Board of Health · Meeting of October 7, 2026
Lowell Board of Health unanimously grants a Pine Street seafood market the right to clean whole fish for customers. The board voted 5-0 to let I Got Crabs & Seafood, 6 Pine Street, descale and eviscerate finfish under a hazard-control plan owner Phan Trieu called meticulous enough that Sr. Sanitary Code Inspector Matthew Sheehan called it "one of the best" he's reviewed.
Members also approved a new funeral director's license for Mahoney Funeral Home, 4-1 with one abstention. Health and Human Services Director Lisa Golden briefed the board on a MassDEP cleanup report for a 75-gallon lubricating-oil spill at 2 Tanner Street, tied to a Markley Group data-center-adjacent parcel, and flagged "it's a super toxic site for the whole street" as a thread to watch. A tuberculosis contact-tracing gap, 16 cases but only seven identified contacts, drew pointed board questions.
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Source: the Board of Health meeting of October 7, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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