Cockling tragedy warnings 'ignored' Last updated at 13:11 24 March 2006 The Sea Fisheries had been warned about a potential tragedy on Warton Sands four months before the cockling disaster ...

Read Cockling suspended in Ribbleton latest on ITV News. All the Friday 13th July 2012 news Cockling has been suspended from the Flounaze fishery in Ribbleton because of a serious health risk.

CHILDREN as young as 14 who are risking their lives cockling have been warned they are "another Morecambe Bay waiting to happen".

Which organisation oversees the cockling industry and how is cockling regulated in the UK? There are 12 Sea Fisheries Committees (SFCs) in England and Wales. These are management bodies which ...

Tim Holroyde, QC, told Preston Crown Court there were "particular dangers of cockling in Morecambe Bay". 'Hard characters' He said some of the people in the cockling business were "hard, unpleasant ...

Read Cockling resumes latest on ITV News. All the Wednesday 1st August 2012 news Cockling in the Ribble Estuary will begin again today for the first time since November.

Coastguards on the Solway have warned that deaths off the coast are "almost certain" if illegal cockling continues. Sector officer Tony Wood said that if gangs continued to go out at night in the ...

AN HISTORIC experiment on the mudflats of the Dee Estuary came to an end this weekend, and a fishing community is now holding its breath.

Morecambe Bay cockling disaster survivor Li Hua said he thought he "might just as well wait to die" before the emergency helicopter's thermal imaging camera spotted he was alive in the sea The ...

Cockling in West Lancashire has resumed after a council announced the molluscs had passed a quality test. The Ribble Estuary's Foulnaze bed was due to reopen on 25 July, ...

Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy: 20 years on, remembering the victims and their impact on modern slavery law Published: February 5, 2024 7:30am EST. Jill Timms, University of Surrey. Author ...

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