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 ...

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 ...

Tiny organisms called algae can have an outsized impact on working waterfronts. While many benefit their ecosystems, others ...

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 ...

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 ...

People are being urged to not eat sport-harvested mussels, clams, or scallops from San Luis Obispo County. The San Luis Obispo County Department of Public Health says “dangerous levels of paralytic ...

High levels of the toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning showed up in samples of shellfish last year from the Aleutian Islands, according to an analysis by the Knik Tribe. The Southcentral ...

Third and final suspect arrested in killing of sleeping 13-year-old Gresham boy U.S. marshals arrested the third and final suspect on Thursday wanted in the killing of a 13-year-old Gresham boy as he ...

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 ...

A woman in New Zealand who became temporarily paralyzed only 12 hours after eating some shellfish she had collected has shared her experiences. Kim Taia was speaking in the wake of news that ...

Clams, oysters are other shellfish are off limits to harvesting across much of Massachusetts’ North Shore, where an infestation of red tide has made the seafood “dangerous or fatal” if consumed. The ...