The Environment Secretary Therese Coffey has rejected calls from MPs to carry out further analysis to discover what caused the mass deaths of thousands of crustaceans off the north east coast
In his letter, Tory chair of the Efra Committee Sir Robert Goodwill, said further tests were needed to identify the pathogen “given the importance of determining its origin, its vectors of transmission, its transmissibility, its virulence and other factors related to it”.
Ms Coffey’s decision to drop any further investigative work comes after the Government has come under sustained criticism over its response to the incident.Separate research by academics, backed by the fishing industry, suggested the incident could have been caused by industrial pollutant pyridine, possibly from dredging in the mouth of the River Tees to maintain channels for port traffic.
There had been calls for a halt to dredging for the new freeport pending a full analysis of the situation.
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