Heavier rains are triggering regulatory pauses on harvesting oysters and clams—and putting fishermen out of work.

Butter clams, important to many Alaskans’ diets, are notorious for being sources of the toxin that causes sometimes-deadly paralytic shellfish poisoning. Now a new study is providing information that ...

Not all bivalves are created equal. Oysters and clams are both bivalves—animals with two connected shells—but they have more differences than similarities. While the differences may not be obvious at ...

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A warning was issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about some oysters and clams that may be contaminated with paralytic shellfish toxins. These contaminated shellfish and clams were ...

Oysters and clams are two very popular edible mollusks or bivalves. Although they have many similarities between them, there are enough differences so that the average diner can tell which is which.

Ring in the new year with some razor clams as the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife shellfish managers approved ...

The Washington Department of Health issued a biotoxin notice Tuesday closing all recreational bivalve harvesting along the Washington coast. An outbreak of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) sickened ...

Warnings from the California Department of Public Health that advised against eating San Luis Obispo County bivalve shellfish were lifted as of Tuesday afternoon. According to a news release from the ...