Lobsters, crabs, clams and oysters are the “forgotten victims” of sewage being dumped into the sea and rivers around the UK, new analysis has shown. Waters containing shellfish were dumped in nearly ...

Daniel Zeichner, UK Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with CJ Jackson (chef, food writer, broadcaster and former Chief Executive of The Billingsgate Seafood ...

Shellfish on a beach near Batic sea/ Image by ASSY from Pixabay Thousands of dead shellfish washed ashore on a beach in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire on Tuesday. This is the same region that ...

The discovery of a large shellfish reef on the west coast of the UK could be the biggest find of its kind in the world, experts say. Flame shells have a shape similar to scallops with many neon orange ...

The UK government is in talks with the European Commission over an indefinite ban on the export of certain types of live shellfish to the European Union. As part of the post-Brexit trading rules, UK ...

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The Prime Minister had hoped to organise a meeting with EU officials to discuss and rectify the ban on UK shellfish exports. Environment Secretary George Eustice had planned to meet Stella Kyriakides, ...

Rising temperatures are causing a 'growing diversity' of Vibrio bacteria in the sea around the UK, new research shows. These species can harm sea creatures such as shellfish, but the increasing range ...

With UK mussel producers starved of income and European consumers denied a product, the EU has reiterated that its ban on shellfish imports from the UK is permanent. The stalemate benefits no one.

THE EU's decision to slap barriers on live UK shellfish exports is an 'unfortunate harbinger' of what is yet to come between the UK and the EU, an academic has claimed.

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