Sea Technology, May 1st, 2004
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have documented for the first time in San Diego seawater the presence of a neurotoxin that has been known to poison marine mammals, birds and human consumers of shellfish.
During the past few years, an increasing number of sea lions have been found sick or dead on San Diego beaches. Many have been poisoned by domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by a common marine phytoplankton. Until now, however, confirmation of domoic acid production has occurred only further north along the California coast.
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