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Gulf Seafood: Who Decides How Safe Is Safe?

(June 29) -- The shopper stood staring at the large, ice-covered shrimp in the chiller-case of the high-end Seattle grocery. "Fresh. Wild Gulf Shrimp. Never Frozen. $16.99 lb." read the sign. "They're my favorites, but are they safe?" the woman asked the fishmonger. Andrew Schneider Fresh gulf shrimp are for sale in...

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New Shellfish Poison Found In U.S. Waters Caused By Algal Bloom

The bright red skull-and-crossbones signs are hard to miss and increasingly common on Pacific Northwest beaches.

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Bowermaster's Adventures: Using creatures to filter the sea

"If the monitoring is successful, we have an idea to create large permanent colonies for scallops, mussels and seaweed at the bottom of the bay and use them to filter the water and keep it clean," a spokesman told the Times.Across the Northern Pacific, the Voice of America reports on a Seattle laboratory where scientists...