Researchers in the UK have shown how the distributions of two phytoplankton groups – known to produce natural toxins that can halt shellfish harvesting – have changed in the North East Atlantic over ...

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A group of coastal Alaska Native tribes in 2016 began monitoring shellfish, a traditional harvest, for deadly biotoxins because the state only tests commercial harvests. The program fills an essential ...

A Southcentral Alaska tribal program that monitors a deadly shellfish toxin on the state's beaches has been halted, as the federal government evaluates its funding. In the summer of 2020, a person in ...

Paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) comprise a suite of potent neurotoxins, principally saxitoxin and its analogues, produced by certain marine dinoflagellates and freshwater cyanobacteria. These toxins ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Oregon Department of Agriculture recently announced the closure of mussel harvesting throughout the entire Oregon coast. The agencies also announced ...

South Africans have been warned not to collect or eat shellfish from Saldanha Bay and nearby coastal areas. This comes after the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) detected ...

The FDA is advising restaurants and food retailers not to serve or sell and to dispose of, and consumers not to eat, certain oysters from Dailyfresh Shellfish Inc. The implicated oysters are from lot ...

Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties. On Our Watch: Season 2 Uncover the secrets hidden inside the most dangerous prison in California: New Folsom. Beyond the ...