Loch Fad - Pea Soup
Posted: Saturday, 20 October 2007 |
The edge of Loch Fad was a thick, greenish sludge, a bit like green paint or pea soup. I don't know if this was algae or something to do with the fish-farming in the middle.
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I think you'll find a boat crewed by an owl and a pussycat has emptied its bilges into Loch Fad
calumadmiral from HMS Brue
Chuck in a smokey knee, a couple of bayleaves, s&p to taste, bring to a rolling boil and serve.
Flying Cat from Fanny Haddock's back kitchen
Fat lot of help, you two...
Bute Photography from The Isle of
i didn't know there was a paint factory on bute,that made olive green paint!
carol from over here
Well really!!
Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin
Certainly thicker than the WWII pea soup being offered by a northern isles school recently. # And you folks swim in that stuff?!
mjc from NM,USA
Looks like a variation of Blue Green Algea, may be that the feed and or pesticide used by fish farm has changed the eco balance of the Loch
Ferry Louper from Glasgow
This is green algae that appears on many lochs that do not have "fish farms" it gets blown to edges where it accumulates. This is not a fish farm merely holding nets to stock for angling on Loch Fad.
JCM from Bute
Yes we get the same stuff on local lakes. The wind churns it up into a froth. Looks like green paint
Kevin Stuart from Carlisle
Certainly blue green algae, probably a mixture of species (cyanobacteria scientifically speaking) Potentially toxic - keep pets and kids away from it if they swallow any - straight to the doc -i t could be that dangerous. Isn't anybody up there testing for these things? Where were the warning signs?
Mike Garcia from Beaminster, Dorset
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