Crabs.......

Never trusted crabs. Shifty looking little sods who can't even walk properly. And they look at you all funny too.
 
They’ve always dredged part of the Tees around jetties etc and there’s been an awful lot of stuff pumped into the river over the last 150 years. You would think there would be a record of it happening previously
 
Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants said:
They’ve always dredged part of the Tees around jetties etc and there’s been an awful lot of stuff pumped into the river over the last 150 years. You would think there would be a record of it happening previously
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I think it is the depth they have gone this time - I'm still open though to what did happen and wouldn't rule out the dredging or algal bloom but also think that the water companies being able to pump high amounts of untreated water into our rivers might have something to do with it.
 
Think that it's fairly obvious what's really happened here. Our dark lord Cthulhu has awoken from centuries of slumber at the bottom of the sea and now he's causing bother again. Nobby is probably involved too. He usually is.
 
newyddion said:
I thought they came out and said it was the dredging?
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Not sure if I have missed that but do know that DEFRA has been blaming algal bloom for it. There is a retired marine pollution specialist who looked into it who said it was more likely the dredging. He never had access to all the samples and was using his past knowledge and spoke a lot of sense when interviewed previously.

I have just found this in the Gazette and it looks like he's done a lot of work on it - DEFRA still blaming algal bloom.

www.gazettelive.co.uk

Independent marine expert blames 'chemical' for mass crab deaths

Furious fishermen paid for their own independent expert to investigate and he found high levels of pyridine in the crabs - Defra says the deaths are linked to an 'algal bloom'
www.gazettelive.co.uk www.gazettelive.co.uk
 
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The problem with paying an independent consultant is they're being paid to find an alternative reason to DEFRA so it's not totally objective.

There's little chance of it being sewerage either. Until about 2000 the UK basically pumped macerated sewerage into the sea for years. If it was bad for creatures like craps it would have been seen several times before now.
 
Nero said:
The problem with paying an independent consultant is they're being paid to find an alternative reason to DEFRA so it's not totally objective.

There's little chance of it being sewerage either. Until about 2000 the UK basically pumped macerated sewerage into the sea for years. If it was bad for creatures like craps it would have been seen several times before now.
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Well sewerage is hardly going to be dangerous to craps is it? You haven't thought this through mate.
 
The river is dredged pretty much 24/7 so am not sure why the Guardian has lumped in some connection with its Freeport status?

Sounds like someone has a bee in their bonnet.
 
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