More Dead Shellfish Washed Up On Saltburn Beach


Posted this before but am still fuming there were no crabs at Whitby this year. A bloody hour we stood there. £10 on nets and buckets. I've a good mind to email Houchen
 
So the cause is a new disease or parasite that has hit the UK - but only around a relatively small coastal area - obviously a very discerning parasite. Just a coincidence that the main river in the area is the Tees - the area of the largest chemical and petrochemical in the UK for years- and the parasite appeared during the same period when they started to dredge the river - shit happens eh!!!!
 
The independent panel that DEFRA commissioned didn't speak to the independent experts who the fishermen etc commissioned at all. It was an entirely desk-based review with no experimental research and no hearings.

Doesn't feel satisfactory that we have a position where DEFRA scientists swore blind it was algal bloom, the fishermen and conservation scientists said it wasn't, it was pyridine, and now the DEFRA group have said it was neither, but instead it was some new disease or infection of a kind on which nobody has found any evidence, and nobody has seen or isolated.

Also odd that this disease hasn't really spread further up or down the coast.
 
I thought the experts were always right.
Money talks, there's been some palms lined here.

The independent panel that DEFRA commissioned didn't speak to the independent experts who the fishermen etc commissioned at all. It was an entirely desk-based review with no experimental research and no hearings.

Doesn't feel satisfactory that we have a position where DEFRA scientists swore blind it was algal bloom, the fishermen and conservation scientists said it wasn't, it was pyridine, and now the DEFRA group have said it was neither, but instead it was some new disease or infection of a kind on which nobody has found any evidence, and nobody has seen or isolated.

Also odd that this disease hasn't really spread further up or down the coast.

Amazing isn't it, that it was just around the Tees estuary. Baffling.
 

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