In recent months, versatile preparations of the Atlantic Ocean’s northern puffer fish — especially puffer fish tails, or the portion of the fish from just behind its head to its tail fin ...

Every Fugu puffer fish contains enough poison to kill at least 30 people, but this variety doesn’t live in our North Atlantic waters. Still, some of its cousins do, and they can mess you up, too.

The puffer's lethality comes from its internal stores of tetrodotoxin, or TTX, a highly potent nerve toxin, which is made by marine bacteria and then wends its way up the food chain. Most ...

Smooth puffer fish shouldn’t be used for bait or chum, the DEM says. Anyone who catches one is advised to carefully take it off the hook and release it.

Cleaning puffers is different than a filleting other fish, and this video (above) does a great job of showing you the steps. All their meat is in the tail, and, when cleaned properly, you end up with ...

"A lot of people have fish, but you never really hear them call the fish pets; it's always, 'I have fish,'" owner Blakely Fountain, a graduate student in the public health school, said.

The fish they ate was an extremely poisonous species of pufferfish – related to an Asian delicacy widely known as fugu. The 30-year-old man and his 33-year-old sister told doctors they’d ...

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