Dead sardines in California had eaten toxic algae
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By , on March 14th, 2011 One comment   Conservation & Environment, Fish, Weird   , , , , , , ,  

Photo credit: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times About 5 days ago, a huge school of sardines found their way into King Harbor in Redondo Beach, CA (near Los Angeles), used up all the oxygen, and died of suffocation. While the harbor tries to vacuum and scoop up the vast number of dead rotting fish . . . → Read More: Dead sardines in California had eaten toxic algae

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Nerve Toxins In The Deep
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By , on March 23rd, 2009 One comment   Conservation & Environment, New Research, Organisms   , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  

Some of the species in the genus Pseudo-nitzschia are nasty little diatoms. They produce domoic acid, a neurotoxin typically to blame for all sorts of marine vertebrate deaths. Alfred Hitcocks’s 1963 film “The Birds” dramatizes a bird attack incident blamed on domoic acid. Human consumption of shellfish that has filtered Pseudo-nitzschia leads to amnesic shellfish . . . → Read More: Nerve Toxins In The Deep

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