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Secret Scotland (2019)
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You'd think being a lawyer, Susan Calman would have done some of her own research before "starring" in this show.
The rep from Loch Fyne Oysters claimed that the waters of Loch Fyne were 'pristine' because there was nothing going into Loch Fyne to pollute.
In 1987 the first record of Paralytic Shellfish Poison in shellfish from Ardkinglass, Loch Fyne, was detected in shore mussels near what was then called the 'biggest salmon farm in the world' with a biomass of 1,600 tonnes of salmon.
Every year since, a variety of biotoxins such as Amnesic Shellfish Toxin, Paralytic Shellfish toxin, Diarrhetic Shellfish Toxin, and Fish and shellfish killing biotoxins have developed in Loch Fyne which is subject to the discharge of many thousands of tonnes of raw untreated waste from the huge salmon feedlots which are multiplying throughout the lochs, channels and bays of the Clyde estuary. Efforts to solve cultural problems by discharging chemicals to prevent parasites and harmful organisms multiply the extent and form of the pollution.