For the first time, scientists have made a definite link between the toxin produced by algae that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning and marine mammal deaths. Fur seals found dead last August on ...

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.

The Washington State Department of Health has closed recreational harvest of molluscan shellfish from Sandy Point up to the Canadian border due to unsafe levels of a paralytic biotoxin. Molluscan ...

Mussel harvesting along the Oregon Coast stretching from the Washington border to Florence was halted Friday after the Oregon Department of Agriculture and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife ...

State officials have closed beaches in West Seattle and Vashon Island to recreational shellfish harvesting, after detecting unsafe levels of a potentially deadly toxin in the marine animals, Public ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has issued a bay clam harvest advisory for the Alsea Bay estuary near Waldport due to the potential for paralytic shellfish poisoning. ODFW recommends people ...

The Harmful Algal Bloom Network released preliminary results on Sept. 12 from their toxin testing of Kachemak Bay shellfish. Blue mussels gathered from Homer Harbor on Aug. 28 tested below the ...