I'm not sure if this is a seafood safety or marine safety issue but it
certainly sounds unique.
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>Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 18:11:37 -0400 (EDT)
>From: ProMED-mail <promed@promed.isid.harvard.edu>
>Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Fumes, fatal, fermented squid - Japan: susp.
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>FUMES, FATAL, FERMENTED SQUID - JAPAN: SUSPECTED
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>Date: 15 Apr 2004
>From: Joseph Dudley <jdudley@intellibridge.com>
>Source: Japan Today [edited]
><http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news>
><http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=295006&cat=1&id=295006>
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>Noxious fumes from fermented squid may have killed Koreans
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>The noxious fumes of fermented squid intestines on a ship that ran into a
>breakwater in Japan on Sunday may have caused the deaths of 3 of the 4 South
>Koreans aboard, the Japan Coast Guard said Tuesday.
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>The 115-ton South Korean squid transport ship Dong Woo probably ran into
>the breakwater at a port in Oda, Shimane Prefecture, when the crew became
>unable to operate it after suffering an oxygen deficiency due to the
>fermented squid intestines the vessel was carrying, coast guard officials
>said.
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>[This article does not give any details other than oxygen deprivation.
>However, fermentation of certain organic material may mean decay. Although I
>am not familiar with the uses of fermented squid intestines, I would suggest
>that it was a case of decay in the hold of ship without circulation of
>oxygen, and hence, release of hydrogen sulfide gas. - Mod.TG]
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