This dinoflagellate, apparently widely distributed in temperate coastal waters, produces ichthyotoxins that have killed net-pen farmed salmonids in Norway, Scotland, and Ireland (Smayda 2006).
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Ichthyotoxin
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Finnish
3 entries- iktyotoksiini noun (toxin produced by fish)
- kalamyrkky noun (substance toxic fish)
- kalamyrkky noun (toxin produced by fish)
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While such a pretreatment increased the sensitivity ten to forty times, the damage to the gills induced by brief exposure to ichthyotoxin was reversible.
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The rate of the ichthyotoxic effect on immersed minnows within the temperature range of 10–30°C increases directly with the temperature (from 3 hours to 30 minutes), but the final titer of the ichthyotoxin is identical at both high and low temperatures.
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More recently, Ehrhardt (1971) drew attention to ichthyotoxins as a whole. Among fish alone there are more than 500 species that are dangerous to man.
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