Paralytic shellfish poisoning is the most severe type of shellfish poisoning. It’s tied to algal blooms that state officials say are getting worse along with climate change. Oregon officials closed ...

Marin County Public Health officials confirmed Tuesday a person was hospitalized with shellfish poisoning after eating mussels harvested from Dillon Beach. The poisoning comes just days after health ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says consumers should avoid eating shellfish from Oregon and Washington state as they may be contaminated with toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning.

An annual quarantine of sports-harvested mussels is in place from May 1 through Oct. 31, 2022. San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department Twitter San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department ...

If you take legal or illegal drugs, or even flush them down the toilet unused, there's a good chance they'll wind up in Puget Sound. Now there may be evidence that the opioid crisis reaches underwater ...

When Sergio Herman was growing up, escaping mussels was almost out of the question. The Michelin-starred chef was born and bred in Oud Sluis, the now-defunct but world-renowned seafood restaurant ...

Mussels are suffering from stress as a result of underwater noise from ships, new research suggests, and a shortage of the shellfish may be on the horizon. Despite molluscs not having ears, scientists ...

The California Department of Public Health warned residents in Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties to refrain from harvesting and consuming mussels, clams, oysters and other bivalve shellfish ...