shellfish
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Domoic acid can accumulate in shellfish and cause nausea, diarrhea and illness in humans when consumed at low levels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
For commercial abalone farmers, “four years is a long time to raise a shellfish to the size of a duck’s egg.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Long periods of sea heat can trigger mass die-offs among some seagrasses, shellfish and other species, as well as encouraging greater numbers of warm-water creatures including octopus.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The heat has warmed the lagoons, boosting the growth of algae that cover the shellfish.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
The raw pigments used for paints fascinated her: dried buckthorn berries for green, shellfish for purple, precious lapis lazuli for blue.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
Here sea creatures come to live, fishes swim hungrily to and fro, and shellfishes die in the mud which, by and by, is to become firm rock with stony animal remains embedded in it.
From Eighth Reader by James Baldwin
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