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 ...

Researchers in the UK have shown how the distributions of two phytoplankton groups—known to produce natural toxins that can ...

Butter clams, important to many Alaskans’ diets, are notorious for being sources of the toxin that causes sometimes-deadly paralytic shellfish poisoning. Now a new study is providing information that ...

The Harmful Algal Bloom Network released preliminary results on Sept. 12 from their toxin testing of Kachemak Bay shellfish. Blue mussels gathered from Homer Harbor on Aug. 28 tested below the ...

The FDA says consumers should avoid eating shellfish from Oregon and Washington state as they may be contaminated with toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. At least 31 people have been ...

For the first time, scientists have made a definite link between the toxin produced by algae that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning and marine mammal deaths. Fur seals found dead last August on ...

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Recent bird deaths, marine mammal strandings, and phytoplankton blooms in Kachemak Bay have sparked community concern about the potential presence of toxic algae blooms in Kachemak Bay. This week, ...

State officials have closed beaches in West Seattle and Vashon Island to recreational shellfish harvesting, after detecting unsafe levels of a potentially deadly toxin in the marine animals, Public ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says consumers should avoid eating shellfish from Oregon and Washington state as they may be contaminated with toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning.