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Researchers identify shellfish-killing phytoplankton behind massive summer die-offs in Puget Sound

Researchers identify shellfish-killing phytoplankton behind massive summer die-offs in Puget Sound

Update: 2021-06-17
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In July of 2018 and 2019, large numbers of oysters, cockles and clams died on beaches all around Puget Sound. No one knew why. It was a particularly bad couple of years, but summer mortality events with mass die-offs of shellfish happen regularly. They’ve been recorded by researchers in western Washington as far back as the 1930s. The source has remained a mystery.
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Researchers identify shellfish-killing phytoplankton behind massive summer die-offs in Puget Sound

Researchers identify shellfish-killing phytoplankton behind massive summer die-offs in Puget Sound

Bellamy Pailthorp