there s a community that know that environment . better than anybody else, i you know, listen to them. i used to go out to sea with me grandad. i think the first time i ever went out trawling i was only seven. i used to sit on his chart table in the wheelhouse, drink his irn bru we didn t believe it at first off whitby. within weeks, it had crept along the coast and it was happening to us. and it was like, my god, what s happening here? it was frightening. yeah oh it s all come out. something is not quite right. we used to see a lot younger crab to throw back for the following year s fishery, but we aren t seeing thatjust now. there s enough catch for today, but you are always thinking ahead to the future, you always want to see plenty of stock, small stock, it is getting fed, you throw it back, you know you will catch it when it is right. but it isn t there, it isn t there to throw back. it s taken about two thirds of our crab catches away over the last 8 9 months. it is a
households are without power following a new wave of russian attacks. and england s lionesses will face china and denmark at next year s women s world cup in australia and new zealand. now on bbc news. we are england: trouble at sea. it s been described as an ecological catastrophe that wiped out marine life across much of the north east and north yorkshire coastline. we ve seen crabs completely decimated. something catastrophic had gone wrong with the ecosystem. it s dying. in fact it s not dying, we re murdering it. i itjust left you with a sinking feeling that there s going to be no future in this job. it s a really complicated difficult puzzle to try and fit together. everybody is treating the sea like it is a rubbish tip. it is mind blowing! as a community that i know the environment better than anybody else, i you know, listen to them. i used to go out to sea with me grandad. i think the first time i went out i was only seven. a bit sad that it could all end pretty shar
to the questions they still have. defra said to the fishermen right at the start of the die off, if you want to find your evidence, you ve got to find the evidence yourself, and that s exactly what we are doing. we are going to create a full picture of what the chemical risk is in terms of the north sea, and we re going to relate that back to the dredging activity, and we re going to see what that connection is. if there is a connection, the fishermen say they ll seek government compensation. defra says it is not offering support following the crustacean deaths, and provides millions of pounds through the fisheries and seafood scheme, and the uk seafood fund. we can provide for some financial support, we can provide some practical support. . .. so for now, part of this historic fishing community is doing something it never thought it would asking for help in order to survive. fiona trott, bbc news, hartlepool.
and the possibilities. i would just like somebody to be able to say, yes, this is what happened, nobody has. they need a solution, because something new is happening in these waters. prawn catches are also down by up to 90%. what s happening at the teesport can only be good for the area, and i have no problem with that whatsoever. what i don t think is that some of us should have to suffer. if that s the case, then we should receive help for it. so they re carrying out their own research. fishermen and scientists working together, looking for answers to the questions they still have. defra said to the fishermen right at the start of the die off, if you want to find your evidence, you ve got to find the evidence yourself, and that s exactly what we are doing. we are going to create a full picture of what the chemical risk is in terms of the north sea, and we re going to relate that back to the dredging
freedom of information requests and try to construct a report. from that, there was one thing he picked up which was really evident and had the potential to be a suspect behind the mass mortality event. he actually identified this pyridine in some of the samples from the environmental agency. pyridine, which is a toxic chemical, was present in high volumes in crabs washed up along the north east coast. it s a toxic chemical which has potentially laid dormant in the dredged material. he actually links the resuspension to the dredging activity and theorises that has a strong chance of being a causative factor. it was, kind of, like a sort of game changing moment. really, that was. that was the first sign that we might have some evidence or some backing for this dredging theory.