Resumen de Invasion of the toxic pufferfish
An invasive pufferfish is causing havoc for Mediterranean fishers, and the toxin it carries is turning up in native shellfish. The silver-cheeked toadfish (Lagocephalus sceleratus) is native to the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It has thrived in the Mediterranean since arriving this century, apparently via the Suez Canal. It is a pufferfish, the group eaten as the delicacy fugu in Japan. Some of its organs contain tetrodotoxin, a lethal poison. But so far its toxicity isn't the main problem. Instead, the fish bite through fishing nets that cost thousands of pounds to get at the catch inside
