The California Department of Fish & Wildlife recently issued a warning against consuming sport-taken bivalve shellfish from Santa Barbara County. The species include sport-harvested mussels, clams or ...

Scientists have drastically expanded the list of bivalve species, such as clams, oysters, mussels, scallops and their relatives, that humans are known to harvest and identified the traits that make ...

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SAN DIEGO — County and state health officials are warning residents not to eat locally sport-harvested bivalve shellfish due to dangerous levels of domoic acid detected in mussels in the area. "This ...

In Santa Barbara County, a new warning has been issued for all residents who harvest shellfish locally. The California Department of Health (CDPH) says that bivalve shellfish harvested in the region ...

GRAYS HARBOR, Wash. - The Washington State Department of Health's Recreational Shellfish Program issued a biotoxin notice which is closing bivalve shellfish gathering along the Pacific Coast, ...

Human-harvested shellfish from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History research collections. (Credit: Brittany M. Hance and James D. Tiller, Smithsonian) Photos illustrating this research ...

In a new study, scientists Stewart Edie of the Smithsonian, Shan Huang of the University of Birmingham and colleagues drastically expanded the list of bivalve species, such as clams, oysters, mussels, ...