Warning: Closure: Kildalloig Bay for Common Cockles

[Kintyre Forum News]

Warning: Closure Campbeltown: Kildalloig Bay for Common Cockles

Monitoring work undertaken by the council's environmental health team has identified that there is a risk of elevated levels of bacteria in cockles from Campbeltown Loch at Kildalloig Bay.

Cockles from this area may pose a risk to human health and should not be collected or consumed and cannot be placed onto the market between;

1st August 2013 and 30th September 2013

Notices to warn the public and casual gatherers will be posted at various locations on the shore.

Commercial shellfish harvesters in these areas have been contacted by the council and steps taken to postpone harvesting until microbiological level subsides.

When the situation subsides, the warning notes etc will be removed.

For further information, please contact Regulatory Services, Tel: 01631 567987

[LANDROVER ROGER]

Am I correct in saying that this happened last year?Have the boffins identified what the bacteria is?

[RDS]

As an old fisherman on Mull told me "when we were young there was a saying" never eat shellfish unless there is an "R" in the month"