Shellfish affected by biotoxins usually include bivalves like mussels, oysters, tuatua, pipi, toheroa, cockles and scallops.

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They may be contaminated with high levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning, or PSP, a naturally occurring toxin produced by algae. Shellfish harvested from those areas during that period were ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Elevated levels of naturally occurring toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning were initially detected in shellfish on the Oregon ...

“Hence, shellfish ban is still imposed in Daram Island, Samar; Irong-Irong Bay in Catbalogan City, Samar; Matarinao Bay in ...

Eld Inlet is located west of Olympia. The biotoxin that was detected produces diarrhetic shellfish poisoning, or DSP. Recreational shellfish harvesting for all shellfish species is closed in Eld Inlet ...

causing what is known as paralytic shellfish poisoning. PSP attacks the nervous system and as little as one milligram is enough to kill an adult. The outbreak of PSP caught the government flatfooted.

The coastal waters of Zumarraga Island in Samar have been cleared from toxic red tide, but the condition persists in six bays in Eastern Visayas, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) ...

High levels of the biotoxin which produces diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP) were detected in shellfish at unsafe levels, ...

TACLOBAN CITY –Seven bays in Eastern Visayas are still affected by the toxic red tide, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic ...