HIGHLAND Council’s Environmental Health team has identified raised levels of naturally occurring algal toxins following routine monitoring at Loch Beag and Loch Ailort in Lochaber, along with others across the West Highlands.
Commercial harvesting sites in these areas have been closed as a consequence of the levels of an algal toxin called PSP (paralytic shellfish poison).
Eating shellfish such as cockles, mussels, oysters or razor fish from these areas is likely to pose a health risk arising from the consumption of these toxins.