Fishes Carrying This Incurable Poison Are on the Rise
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3 min readMar 22, 2020
“We’re likely to have more ciguateric fish in the future,” says the marine biologist Lucia Solino at the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere.
Some Basics [refs: 1, 2]
- Ciguatoxins are produced by the marine microalgae called Gambierdiscus toxicus. They bioaccumulate in fishes higher up in the food chain.
