Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties. On Our Watch: Season 2 Uncover the secrets hidden inside the most dangerous prison in California: New Folsom. Beyond the ...

A group of coastal Alaska Native tribes in 2016 began monitoring shellfish, a traditional harvest, for deadly biotoxins because the state only tests commercial harvests. The program fills an essential ...

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 ...

Recreational harvesting for clams, oysters, mussels and scallops is closed throughout Hood Canal and has been expanded to ...

Washington officials extended a ban on harvesting and eating shellfish from Hood Canal waters on July 2.

Researchers in the UK have shown how the distributions of two phytoplankton groups—known to produce natural toxins that can halt shellfish harvesting—have changed in the North East Atlantic over the ...

Paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) comprise a suite of potent neurotoxins, principally saxitoxin and its analogues, produced by certain marine dinoflagellates and freshwater cyanobacteria. These toxins ...

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 ...

Toxic shellfish were found within Kachemak Bay during the first week of September, according to an alert issued by the State of Alaska Department of Health and the Alaska Division of Public Health ...

There is a weapon that is released by algae around the world and concentrated, invisible, in the flesh of shellfish. An amount the size of a poppy seed is enough to kill a grown person. It’s part of ...