Illahee is an unincorporated community in Kitsap County, Washington, United States,[1] between Bremerton and Silverdale.
The word "Illahee" means earth or country in the pidgin language Chinuk Wawa, commonly spoken in the area until the early twentieth century.
In addition, environmental contaminants of the surface-water and Mytilus tissues at the Port of Illahee are monitored routinely by local ecology programs.
[2][3] While historical monitoring has reported low concentrations of heavy metals over the past decade (2010-2020), the presence of carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (cPAHs) in Mytilus tissues should be considered by recreational and subsistence consumers.
[4][5] The following table provides Washington State cPAH thresholds (current as of 2020) for general fish consumption and available historical tissue burdens at the Port of Illahee.