![]() ![]() One resident, Carl Clyne, first spotted scores of dead crabs on Seaton Carew beach in early October, telling the Hartlepool Mail: “There were dead crabs in every rock pool and quite a lot of them along the waterline among the seaweed.” The former Redcar MP Anna Turley tweeted: “What is going on? This is getting apocalyptic.” It was “deeply worrying that this seems to be continuing on our coastline”, he told the Northern Echo. The Conservative MP for Redcar, Jacob Young, has raised the matter with ministers. An investigation is under way into why thousands of dead crabs and lobsters are washing up on the Tees estuary and neighbouring north-east beaches in recent weeks.Ĭountless crustaceans have been found, with Marske and Saltburn said to be experiencing particularly high numbers, and the first sightings reported in early October in Seaton Carew, Redcar and farther north in Seaham.
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