Seafood gathering banned at Scottish beach

Restrictions have been placed on gathering seafood and bait from a beach affected by radioactive particles. So if your crabs and prawns start to glow in the dark….

Warning signs are already in place at Dalgety Bay in Fife saying seafood should not be collected but new restrictions have been issued making it an offence, the Food Standards Agency in Scotland said.

The is “a precautionary measure” following recent surveys detecting radioactive seafood items on the beach, the food watchdog said.

It added that the restrictions will be reviewed in light of further evidence or any action taken “to remediate the contamination”.

Although there is no commercial fishing or seafood industry in the area, individuals are known to collect shellfish, it said.

Radioactive material was first detected on the foreshore of Dalgety Bay in 1990.

The contamination is thought to stem from residue of radium-coated instrument panels used on military aircraft which were incinerated and put in landfill in the area at the end of the Second World War.

A lump of contaminated metal was found on the beach in October last year, prompting the closure of part of the foreshore.

Last month, an investigation plan to establish how to clean up the beach was agreed by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa).

The MoD’s final Dalgety Bay inspection plan was published by its Defence Infrastructure Organisation and Sepa.

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