Use fish quickly. Eat fresh or defrosted seafood within a day or two. You can freeze fresh-caught fish within that time frame ...

Saxitoxin — one of about 50 neurotoxins found in shellfish — commonly accumulates in freshwater systems in the Lower 48, ...

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

Native oysters in North America occur from Atlantic Canada down the East Coast of the U.S. into the Gulf of Mexico. They have ...

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Multiple reports of toxic algae in Lake Okeechobee sections in Martin County prompted a July 11 Florida Department of Health ...

Researchers and hatcheries are exploring new ways to protect shellfish in the Pacific Northwest, although Trump budget cuts ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Discovery Bay beaches have been closed for recreational shellfish harvesting due to high paralytic shellfish poison levels in shellfish samples sent to the state Department of Health.

THE Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (Bfar) 7 has issued a temporary ban on the harvesting and selling of all ...

It is also possible to pick up food poisoning from eating any raw shellfish (clams, mussels, whelks, cockles). I only eat shellfish that are well-cooked because heat effectively kills harmful germs.