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8. For both wild and aquaculture shellfish businesses we be interested to hear about how phytoplankton is used at a local level. Do you apply different triggers to those used in either the monitoring programme or in the ‘toxin traffic Seafish industry Authority 1. Some of the larger businesses have the resources and expertise to undertake and process their own phytoplankton samples, but many, particularly those that operate at the smaller scales make use of the ‘toxin traffic light’ document. Blueshell Mussels Ltd 2. We use Phytoplankton levels to predict toxin closures and toxin trends and the general activity and movement of toxic algae onto sites. Shetland Mussels Ltd 3. This adds a lot of value for public food safety in being the main tool to see what is going to happen in the future. We use the data in the SAMS report too. We still test all harvests with the kits but where we harvest is steered to a great extent by plankton.
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