Biotoxins Affecting Bivalve Shellfish in Coastal Waters in the East of the Isle of Skye

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SLÁINTE GAVEL GAMUT By Jim Redwine www.jamesmredwine.com (Week of 19 May 2025) Not long ago Peg and I visited the Isle of Skye in Scotland. We took a bus ride to the small town of Portree and chuckled when we were let off near an intersection with a sign that said, “Caution, Elderly People Crossing”. The sign had a drawing of a bent at the waist old woman holding onto an even more acutely bent old man leaning on a cane. It looked strangely famil…

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Biotoxins affecting Bivalve Shellfish in coastal waters in the East of the Isle of Skye

Highland Council's Environmental Health team have identified raised levels of naturally occurring bivalve shellfish biotoxins following routine monitoring at Loch Portree. Eating bivalve shellfish such as cockles, mussels, oysters or razor fish from the area of Loch Portree may pose a health risk arising from the consumption of these biotoxins.

Budd Inlet Closed to Recreational Shellfish Harvesting Due to Biotoxin - ThurstonTalk

ThurstonTalk Submitted by Thurston County High levels of the biotoxin which produces diarrhetic shellfish poisoning (DSP) were detected in shellfish at unsafe levels, prompting closure of recreational shellfish harvesting for all species in Budd Inlet. Warning signs will be posted at public beaches at Burfoot County Park. Biotoxins are produced by naturally occurring plankton which can […]