Possible animal effects
On June 22, 2006, a California brown pelican, possibly under the influence of domoic acid, flew through the windshield of a car on the Pacific Coast Highway. The phycotoxin is found in the local coastal waters. Since March 2007, marine mammal and seabird strandings and deaths off the Southern California coast have increased markedly. These incidents have been linked to the recent and dramatic increase of a naturally occurring toxin produced by algae. Most of the animals found dead tested positive for domoic acid. According to the Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute, "It is generally accepted that the incidence of problems associated with toxic algae is increasing. Possible reasons to explain this increase include natural mechanisms of species dispersal (currents and tides) to a host of human-related phenomena such as nutrient enrichment (agricultural run-off), climate shifts, or transport of algae species via ship ballast water." In popular culture
In the TV series Elementary episode "The Red Team" (original air date January 31, 2013), a witness is intentionally poisoned with domoic acid. In the "Bad Fish" episode of Get a Life (original air date: February 2, 1992), Sharon and Gus get amnesia after eating bad shellfish, and Chris seizes the opportunity to convince them that they are his best friends. Domoic acid poisoning may have caused an August 18, 1961, invasion of thousands of frantic seabirds in Capitola and Santa Cruz, California.
Director Alfred Hitchcock heard about this invasion while working on his adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novelette "The Birds" for his feature film The Birds (1963), and asked the Santa Cruz Sentinel for any further news copy as "research for his new thriller." See also
Diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP)
Neurotoxic shellfish poisoning (NSP)
Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP)
Harmful algal blooms (HABs)

References
External links
Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Domoic acid and Pseudo-nitzschia references at Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning, Domoic Acid, and Pseudo-nitzschia links at the ISSHA website
Domoic acid at International Programme on Chemical Safety
DOMOIC ACID — A MAJOR CONCERN TO WASHINGTON STATE’S SHELLFISH LOVERS at Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Crisis off our coast at the International Bird Rescue Research Center
Domoic Acid Poisoning Linked to Recent Marine Strandings and Deaths at Heal the Bay
Domoic Acid Information and History at the Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute