The Ciguatera Poison

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Ciguatera is a sort of food poisoning. The ciguatera poison may be found in extensive reef fish, most normally barracuda, grouper, red snapper, eel, amberjack, ocean bass, and Spanish mackerel. These fish live in coral reef waters between scopes of 35 degrees south to 35 degrees north, comparing to the region situated between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. These geographic lines ring the earth north and south of the equator and make up the tropics. These territories incorporate the Caribbean Sea, Hawaii, and waterfront Central America.

Ciguatera poison has a tendency to gather in predator fish, for example, the barracuda and different predatory reef fish, on the grounds that they eat other fish that consume poison delivering

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