There’s nothing more summery than shucking some oysters, but you might want to think twice before you slurp them down—or at least check where your haul is coming from first. That’s because some ...

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 outbreak of paralytic shellfish poisoning that has sickened at least 20 people has prompted health officials to urge those who harvested mussels from a stretch of Oregon’s coast since Saturday to ...

Phyllis Clough was driving to the post office in the tiny Alaskan village of Old Harbor one summer afternoon when her lips went numb. Within minutes, her mouth was swollen and the numbness had spread ...

In Southeast Alaska this summer, researchers have seen extremely high levels of toxins in mussels and clams plucked from beaches, prompting state health officials last week to warn that harvesting and ...

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 ...

Oregon officials are barring all razor-clam, bay-clam and mussel harvesting along the state’s coast due to historically high levels of a potentially deadly toxin in local shellfish, the Oregon ...

Burrowing shrimp are small marine excavators native to Washington. They make their homes deep in the sediment by digging, ...

Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder ...

QUILCENE, Wash — Rising acid levels in Puget Sound due to climate change are threatening the Northwest's shellfish population, but one shellfish farmer in Washington state is working to change that.

SEATTLE — 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 ...