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features shared by almost all molluscs are an unsegmented, soft body, a muscular foot or tentacles, a mantle that can secrete a shell. molluscs, because of their ease of capture, taste and beauty have long been important to us. many molluscs are eaten by humans, for example abalone, clams, cockles, mussels
can inject a deadly toxin. others, like many land snails and slugs, are major pests of crops and ship worms, a burrowing bivalve, can weaken and eventually destroy the hulls of wooden ships and wharves. oysters can accumulate toxins from algal blooms and cause food poisoning and even death. zebra mussels...
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natural wonders are renowned seafood producers including the connemara smokehouse , croagh patrick seafoods , killary fjord shellfish , keem bay fish , kelly's oysters and lobster fishermen gerry sweeney and gerard hassett. there are seafood producers: donegal: crocknagee oysters, clonmany; mulroy bay mussels
ballyconneely; dk connemara oysters, letterfrack; mungo murphy, ballynahown and kelly oysters, kilcolgan. clare: redbank food company, burren, burren smokehouse, lisdoonvarna and moyasta oysters, kilrush kerry: kenmare bay seafoods; tousist and cromane bay shellfish, killorglin cork: roaringwater bay rope mussels...
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