| is fish consumption safe? | louisiana's vital seafood industry provides nearly 40% of domestic seafood production. unlike louisianans, most americans do not enjoy fresh seafood, yet manage to eat over 4 billion pounds of seafood annually, most of it foreign, frozen, and fried! america's commercial fisheries now face crippling economic and environmental pressures from seafood imports, over-fishing, urban and agricultural wastewater runoff, harmful algal blooms, and coastal wetlands loss. as a result of these ecosystem stres ... | 2004 | 15000214 |
| survey of the u.s. gulf coast for the presence of clostridium botulinum. | in sediments and animals collected during warm weather months between key west, fla., and brownsville, tex., clostridium botulinum, predominantly type e, was demonstrable. incidence was somewhat higher in the eastern gulf animals, but the organism was present to the southernmost limits of both texas and florida. types a and f were never detected in warm weather. no bottom type or any single species seemed exclusively vulnerable. in samples collected during colder weather, the east-west incidence ... | 1967 | 5340653 |