Blue mussels collected on 6/15/2023, were way above the FDA limit for safe consumption of 80 μg/100g.
Juvenille crab was found at a salmon set-net site. Is this a Puget Sound species that has now been found on the Alaska Peninsula?
Is there something that would cause fingers to tingle or swell after touching the mussels and clams?
The Department of Health and Social Services reports a person experienced PSP symptoms after eating a clam harvested near Perryville on the Alaska Peninsula.
Regional monitoring program notifies shellfish harvesters of an upward trend in concentrations of PSP.
Purse seiner crew scrambles to shovel the huge bycatch of Northern sea nettle jelly fish (Chrysaora melanaster) overboard.
Getting bigger each sighting.
Leopard Slug Found
Extremely high PSP levels
Unusually high PSP toxin levels making shellfish unsafe to eat.
High PSP in clams - Sand Point, Alaska, USA
High PSP level in Sand Point, Alaska
The paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) results for Sand Point, Alaska (butter clams collected 1/5/2015) had PSP toxin levels of 112 micrograms/100 grams.
High PSP in clams
Northern sea nettle jellyfish die-off
Persistently high levels of PSP recorded in the Shumagin Islands.
For a couple years, Sand Point residents have observed an increasing number of the non-native leopard slug.
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