Sentence examples for shellfish feed from inspiring English sources

The source of the poison has been traced to the plankton upon which shellfish feed during parts of the year.

"Shellfish feed on algae and concentrate the toxin – this makes them dangerous to eat and may cause serious and even fatal illness," the state's acting director of public health, Dr Mark Veitch, said in a statement on Sunday.

The largest is 120 Canadian dollars and comes in a giant wooden trough that contains enough raw shellfish to feed a romp of otters.

Shellfish that feed upon low levels of them over a prolonged period of time still accumulate enough poison to sicken human consumers.

The 167 Bikini residents who were moved to the Rongerik Atoll prior to the Crossroads tests were unable to gather sufficient food or catch enough fish and shellfish to feed themselves in their new environment.

PbTxs can also concentrate in the tissues of shellfish that feed on dinoflagellates.

Abalone is a shellfish that feeds on kelp and as a product, can often render high market value.

Some algal blooms are caused by cyanobacteria that make shellfish that filter feed on them toxic, harming animals like sea otters.

Filter feeding shellfish accumulate these toxins within their flesh, posing a risk to human health if they are consumed.

Symptoms of septicemia (mortality rate >50%) have been described mostly in Florida and Japan among persons who ate raw filter-feeding shellfish when seawater temperatures are >20°C (1 ).

Some harmful algae (HA) produce potent natural toxins that are bioconcentrated by some filter feeding shellfish and finfish, and passed along the food chain causing illness or death if consumed by humans or other organisms.