Conservationists may be forced to close down Britain's richest cockle beds to fishermen, days after lifting a four-year ban imposed because the clamour for the shellfish had stripped it bare.

About 570 tonnes of cockles will be removed from Leasowe beach in the next week More than 500 tonnes of cockles are set to be harvested from a Wirral beach. Crews of up to 100 fishermen - many of them ...

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A historic cockle fishery operating out of Leigh has earned recognition for its sustainable fishing practices ahead of the season's opening. The Thames Estuary Cockle Fishery, with ports in Leigh, ...

Fury has erupted among fishermen in the Norfolk town after conservationists raised fears cockles had been over-fished and stocks had become dangerously low. Fishermen have now been banned from fishing ...

Steven Dell, a cockle fisherman with decades of experience, said he had never been told why his licence application was not successful A cockle fisherman whose business is closing after failing to ...

Cockle fishing is under way on the Dee Estuary for the first time in three years, under a controversial new licensing system. Whereas up to 400 fishermen took to the cockle beds in recent years, the ...

More than 500 tonnes of cockles are set to be harvested from a Wirral beach. Crews of up to 100 fishermen - many of them on quadbikes - have been working on the sands at Leasowe since the cockle beds ...

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