Fish stocks are dying off, as are shellfish.
I like to think the shellfish died happily as well.
The bacterium that is causing the shellfish to be tainted should die off as the water cools.
Thousands of people who ate contaminated fish and shellfish became ill, disabled, or died.
In 1987, three people died and 107 fell ill from amnesic shellfish poisoning after eating mussels that fed on Pseudonitzschia blooms off Prince Edward Island in Canada.
Roughly 1,200 people died from the consumption of fish and shellfish contaminated with methyl mercury in Minamata (Japan) during the 20th century; an even larger number were affected by chronic long-term neurotoxicological impacts [ 2].
They tried blaming the shellfish die-off on the ducks, and that problem got worse after most of the duck farms left".
George Vancouver's exploration crew died after eating mussels contaminated with another toxic strain, Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP).
Much of the group's work will center on studying shellfish populations to see where they thrive, where they die out, where they reproduce fastest, officials said.
