On this week’s Talk of the Rock, host Kayla Desroches talks with Alaska Sea Grant’s Julie Matweyou and the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association’s Bruce Wright about the development of a test kit to monitor for paralytic shellfish poisoning.
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Kayla Desroches/KMXT Researchers are developing a field test kit that would make it easier to monitor for paralytic shellfish poisoning. Project partners include NOAA researchers from the lower 48 as well as community testers based on Kodiak Island and in the Alaska Peninsula. Despite the high level of toxicity found in shellfish in the Kodiak Archipelago, people still harvest them. …
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