And worse, it's not like if you get it once, you are immune to it. There's an opposite effect: you actually get more sensitive to the poison. Tiny levels of the toxin can trigger symptoms again.

"You see the fish offshore in deep water, so these are not posing a threat to our beachgoers,'' he said. "If you look down into Florida, it's a more common event. Divers there prepare for it.

The treatment, planned for this coming September, would kill all fish in the lake along with the smallmouth bass as a way to reduce threats to Atlantic salmon in the nearby Miramichi River, which ...

A 10-year collaborative project has discovered how the Atlantic molly is able to live in toxic hydrogen sulfide water. These fish live in caves and springs throughout Mexico and thrive in water so ...

Wildlife workers near Lake Michigan are at war — and plan to poison an entire stream to defeat their enemy. Larvae of adult sea lampreys - dubbed "Vampire Fish" for latching onto other creatures ...

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The fish they ate was an extremely poisonous species of pufferfish – related to an Asian delicacy widely known as fugu. The 30-year-old man and his 33-year-old sister told doctors they’d ...

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A food poisoning outbreak at a fish distributors saw dozens of people hospitalized in Maryland on Monday. Pictured: An archive stock image showing a nurse preparing an IV bag in August 2023.

Poison, pain and a spiny fish: a stinging reality for Carolina ... Venomous lionfish that are being found increasingly along the South Atlantic coast have become a painful reality for some divers ...