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.

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 ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — The County of San Diego is advising people not to eat locally harvested mussels, clams, scallops or oysters that were not purchased from a state-certified commercial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experts working on guidance for toxins in mollusks have made several recommendations for further research. The guidance is intended to support the development of sampling, analysis and management ...

Algae is more than just green stuff that grows on the sides of your fish tank or the decorations within it. As a large group ...

To protect consumers, screening shellfish for fungal toxins is important, say scientists. Research, published today (06 September) in the Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM) journal, Letters in ...

Shellfish meat collected in the coastal waters of Leyte town in Leyte province tested positive for red tide toxins, the ...

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has sounded the alarm after a wave of dead shellfish washed up along parts ...