Scottish Sanitary Survey Programme Sanitary Survey Review Loch Fyne Ardkinglas AB 147 June 2014 Loch Fyne Ardkinglas Report Title Review Project Name Scottish Sanitary Survey Food Standards Agency Client/Customer Scotland Cefas Project Reference C5792D Document Number C5792D_2013_3 Revision V1.0 Date 09/06/2014 Revision History Revision Date Pages revised Reason for revision number 0.1 28/03/2014 All Draft Typographical corrections in 2,4,6,7,10,11,15, 1.0 05/06/2014 accordance with comments 21-29,30,33 received Name Position Date Senior Shellfish Author Michelle Price-Hayward 05/06/2014 Hygiene Scientist Principal Shellfish Checked Ron Lee 09/06/2014 Hygiene Scientist Principal Shellfish Approved Ron Lee 09/06/2014 Hygiene Scientist This report was produced by Cefas for its Customer, FSAS, for the specific purpose of providing a sanitary survey as per the Customer’s requirements. Although every effort has been made to ensure the information contained herein is as complete as possible, there may be additional information that was either not available or not discovered during the survey. Cefas accepts no liability for any costs, liabilities or losses arising as a result of the use of or reliance upon the contents of this report by any person other than its Customer. Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science, Weymouth Laboratory, Barrack Road, The Nothe, Weymouth DT4 8UB. Tel 01305 206 600 www.cefas.defra.gov.uk Report Distribution Name Agency Joyce Carr Scottish Government Hazel MacLeod SEPA David Denoon SEPA Fiona Garner Scottish Water Alex Adrian Crown Estate Fraser Anderson Argyll & Bute Council Andy MacLeod Argyll & Bute Council David Attwood Harvester Partner Organisation The shoreline survey and its associated report were undertaken by SRSL, Oban. Table of Contents Review specification .............................................................................................. II Sampling plan – Loch Fyne: Ardkinglas mussels ..................................................... IV Sampling plan – Loch Fyne Ardkinglas Pacific oysters ............................................. V 1. AREA AND FISHERY ............................................................................................... 1 2. POPULATION AND HUMAN SEWAGE IMPACTS ...................................................... 4 3. AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS .................................................................................... 10 4. WILDLIFE ............................................................................................................. 11 5. WATERCOURSES ................................................................................................. 11 6. METEOROLOGICAL DATA ..................................................................................... 15 7. HISTORICAL E. COLI DATA .................................................................................... 20 8. MOVEMENT OF CONTAMINANTS ........................................................................ 29 9. OVERALL ASSESSMENT ........................................................................................ 29 10. RECOMMENDATIONS .......................................................................................... 33 11. REFERENCES ........................................................................................................ 35 12. LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES .............................................................................. 36 APPENDICES 1. PLANNING APPLICATIONS 2. SHORELINE SURVEY REPORT © Crown Copyright 2014. Food Standards Agency Scotland and Cefas. All rights reserved. Loch Fyne Ardkinglas Sanitary Survey Review V1.0 09/06/2014 Page | i Review Specification & Introduction Sanitary surveys are used to demonstrate compliance with the requirements stated in Annex II (Chapter II Paragraph 6) of Regulation (EC) 854/2004, whereby if the competent authority decides in principle to classify a production or relay area it must: · make an inventory of pollution sources of human/animal origin likely to be a contamination source for the production areas; · examine the quantities of organic pollutants which are released during the different periods of the year, according to the seasonal variations of both human and animal populations in the catchment area, rainfall readings, wastewater treatment, etc.; · determine the characteristics of the circulation of pollutants by virtue of current patterns, bathymetry and the tidal regime in the production area; · establish a sampling programme of bivalve molluscs in the production area which is based on the examination of established data, and with a number of samples, a geographical distribution of the sampling points and a sampling frequency which must ensure that the results of the analysis are as representative as possible for the area considered. The EURL Good Practice Guide (GPG) for the monitoring of bivalve molluscs harvesting areas recommends the re-evaluation of sanitary surveys every six years. Location, extent and nature of fisheries and faecal pollution sources may change over time and the review is conducted to determine whether the sampling plan and/or production area boundaries remain appropriate and protective of public health. As specified by the Food Standards Agency, this review is comprised of a brief desktop search of publicly available information together with a shoreline survey. No additional data requests are submitted to external bodies. The review is intended to identify significant changes in: • Historic microbiological data. • Sewage treatment and sewerage infrastructure. • Housing and development. • Harvester operations. The output of the review is a report identifying any new information that has been obtained and/or whether major elements of the original sanitary survey can be regarded as essentially unchanged. That report includes an overall assessment as to whether the production area/classification zone boundaries and/or RMPs should be modified from those recommended in the original report and if so, a description of the revised boundaries and a revised sampling plan with the boundaries and RMP(s) locations. A sanitary survey was undertaken in 2007 for Loch Fyne: Ardkinglas. The survey was conducted to identify the location, extent and nature of the shellfishery and the potential sources of faecal contamination to the shellfishery, and to recommend boundaries and sampling plans for the production areas. Loch Fyne Ardkinglas Sanitary Survey Review V1.0 09/06/2014 Page | ii The output of the sanitary survey included a report and recommended sampling plans for the two species cultured within the production area. These sampling plans are identified on the following pages alongside the recommended changes following findings from this review. The present report constitutes a review of publicly available information in order to assess changes that have occurred since the 2007 sanitary survey report (see the Review Specification section for further detail). It is not intended to present detailed information relating to pollution sources that were identified in the previous report. This review should be read in conjunction with the 2007 sanitary survey report. Loch Fyne Ardkinglas Sanitary Survey Review V1.0 09/06/2014 Page | iii Sampling Plan - Loch Fyne: Ardkinglas mussels 2008 2013 review Changes recommendations PRODUCTION Loch Fyne: Ardkinglas mussels None AREA Amended to SITE NAMES Ardkinglas mussels – north site reflect fishery layout SIN AB 147 SPECIES Common mussels None TYPE OF Longline aquaculture FISHERY NGR OF RMP NN 1674 1015 NN 1673 1024 Amended to reflect EASTING 216740 216730 movement of NORTHING 710150 710240 the mussel farm Amended to TOLERANCE (M) 10 40 allow shifting of mussel lines DEPTH (M) 1 1 None METHOD OF Hand SAMPLING FREQUENCY OF Monthly None SAMPLING LOCAL Argyll & Bute Council AUTHORITY Fraser Anderson Christine McLachlan, Karen Goodchild AUTHORISED William MacQuarrie, Change in William McQuarrie SAMPLER(S) Ewan McDougall, personnel Ewan McDougall Donald Campbell Allison Hardie Area bounded by lines Area bounded by lines drawn between NN drawn between NN RECOMMENDED 1500 1002 and NN 1500 1002 and NN PRODUCTION None 1500 0865 and 1500 0865 and between AREA between NN 1748 1057 NN 1748 1057 and NN and NN 1748 1135 1748 1135 Loch Fyne Ardkinglas Sanitary Survey Review V1.0 09/06/2014 Page | iv Sampling Plan – Loch Fyne: Ardkinglas Pacific oysters 2008 2013 review Changes recommendations PRODUCTION Loch Fyne: Ardkinglas Pacific oysters None AREA Amended to The Shore, The Point, SITE NAMES The Point reflect RMP Policy Gates location SIN AB 147 None SPECIES Pacific oysters TYPE OF Trestle and suspended Change in Trestle FISHERY cage culture method NGR OF RMP NN 1741 1054 NN 1741 1054 EASTING 217410 217410 NORTHING 710540 710540 None TOLERANCE (M) 10 10 DEPTH (M) 1 1 METHOD OF Hand SAMPLING FREQUENCY OF Monthly None SAMPLING LOCAL Argyll & Bute Council AUTHORITY Fraser Anderson Christine McLachlan, Karen Goodchild AUTHORISED William MacQuarrie, Change in William McQuarrie SAMPLER(S) Ewan McDougall, personnel Ewan McDougall Donald Campbell Allison Hardie Area bounded by lines Area bounded by lines drawn between NN drawn between NN RECOMMENDED 1500 1002 and NN 1500 1002 and NN PRODUCTION None 1500 0865 and 1500 0865 and between AREA between NN 1748 1057 NN 1748 1057 and NN and NN 1748 1135 1748 1135 Loch Fyne Ardkinglas Sanitary Survey Review V1.0 09/06/2014 Page | v 1. Area and Fishery Loch Fyne is located on the west coast of Scotland,