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 ...

WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. - New test results of shellfish in the waters off Whatcom County have surprised county health officials, forcing them to issue a warning. The new testing has detected marine ...

Health officials are sounding the alarm on shellfish poisoning along Washington's Pacific Coast. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) said it's closely monitoring high levels of paralytic ...

Recreational shellfish harvesting is not currently allowed in Budd Inlet. According to health officials in Thurston County, high levels of the biotoxin that produces diarrhetic shellfish poisoning ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers that shellfish in certain regions could contain harmful toxins with a paralytic effect. The shellfish come from the Pacific Northwest region, ...

Blue mussels at Nahku Bay. Every few weeks, at low tide, Liam Wirak-Cassidy heads to a handful of beaches in Haines. He scoops up about two dozen blue mussels, marks where he found them, and freezes ...

OREGON COAST, Ore. — New shellfish closures are affecting the entire Oregon coast following multiple paralytic poisoning incidents, the Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of ...

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 ...

SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- The California Department of Public Health sent out a notice advising consumers not to eat sport-harvested mussels, clams, or scallops from San Mateo County.

California public health officials have announced a quarantine on mussels that aren't commercially harvested, cautioning that naturally occurring toxins make the species potentially poisonous to ...

Tiny organisms called algae can have an outsized impact on working waterfronts. While many benefit their ecosystems, others can cause devastating economic and ecological effects. University of Maine ...

The coastal waters of Zumarraga Island in Samar have been cleared from toxic red tide, but the condition persists in four ...