Anglers are again being warned about a poisonous fish in Rhode Island waters. Some people eat smooth puffer fish, and some consider them a delicacy, but they're "a serious threat to your health if not ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is once again warning anglers to keep an eye out for a type of fish they don’t want to find on their hooks. The ...

The poisonous puffer fish, which inflates itself into a small balloon when caught, lives in most of the world’s oceans. But only in Japan, where it is called fugu, has it become a national tradition.

The Thai Food and Drug Administration has prohibited the serving of puffer fish after a recent spate of food poisoning. Vendors serving the fish could now face a maximum jail sentence of two years and ...

Pufferfish can be served for human consumption as a delicacy called fugu. It is especially popular in Japan, but you may also see it available in other countries, including Korea, China, Singapore, ...

A new study finds that puffer fish use non-toxic analogs of their famous defense poison for signalling and communication through smell, with implications for the study of their spawning and ...

An elderly couple has died after eating poisonous pufferfish in Malaysia, prompting an appeal from their daughter for stronger laws to prevent others from suffering the same fate. Ng Chuan Sing and ...

An elderly couple from Malaysia have died after consuming poisonous pufferfish, leading their family to call for stricter regulations on the dish. The couple, Ng Chuan Sing and Lim Siew Guan, had ...

After consuming pufferfish on March 25, a woman was pronounced dead shortly after she was hospitalized, while her husband, who was also treated, died weeks later Maria Pasquini is the senior news ...