A plan to police the Ribble estuary cockle beds is put forward to the fishing authority.

Cockling has been suspended from the Flounaze fishery in Ribbleton because of a serious health risk.

The Sea Fisheries had been warned about a potential tragedy on Warton Sands four months before the cockling disaster occurred, it was claimed today.

Cockling in the Ribble Estuary has been allowed from today for the first time since November. The bed between Lytham and Southport was closed after the coastguard were called out twenty six times ...

Legal cockling on the Solway Firth could be set to return A regulating order has been tabled which could lead to the lifting of the long-standing ban on cockling on the Solway Firth in south west ...

Fylde council met the North West Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (IFCA) on Monday to discuss cockling. Proposals include reducing the number of permits and daily catch quotas. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

A meeting is to take place in south west Scotland to investigate claims illegal cocklers are cleaning out the beds in the Solway.

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.

Eva Zhao lived the good life from the proceeds of her boyfriend's illegal cockling gangs. The 21-year-old was essential to Lin Liang Ren's criminal work. She helped him apply for permits and was a ...