Fishermen say their livelihoods are being destroyed by large wash ups of dead crustaceans.
Fishermen between Hartlepool and Whitby said their catches had been massively reduced by the large numbers of dead crabs and lobsters and have called for the government to investigate further.is due to consider the case as well as a new academic study commissioned by the fishing industry which identified pyridine, a chemical used in various industries across Teesside, as a possible cause.
"What you have in the Tees is 120 years of toxic industry so everything was dumped in there," she said, adding: "Whilst we have massively cleaned up the water column what we still have historically is the residue of that." He said he had met fishermen and understood their frustrations and need to find someone to blame, but the port's dredging was not the cause.
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