i would even describe it as crabs going in to convulsions. and to the extent that we were almost doing somersaults. it will take a bit of sinking in. the symptoms you are talking about in the crabs, the rolling forward, acting drunk, that was exactly what our fishermen have been saying. a single drop of pyridine in a litre of sea water, that is enough to kill half the population in three days. it is very poisonous. we still have some data to analyse, but the take home message is pyridine is a very toxic to crabs. given the amount of pyridine that was recorded in the crabs that had died, i think we are starting to see that smoking gun. we found out that pyridine can do that to the crabs, but now we have to find out whether it was there, whether it was in the water. so it is ongoing. it is just the first steps to finding the answers.
i m just waiting for that eureka moment. we expect to get our ist real meaningful data in a weak s time. there is every possibility that we find pyrydine is not toxic at all. and that is just as important that it is toxic. should we find that pyridine is poisonous, and seeing deaths at the lower range we are exposing, that would put pyridine front and centre as a candidate. hi, gary! lovely to see you again. we were effectively asking a very simple question, is pyridine toxic to our stations?
what we ve got in them. there s the first pot. there s nothing in them. no, it s not normal at all. after a whole day at sea, they brought back seven lobsters. compare that to three years ago. they were able to catch 50 times as many. it s costing them £1,000 a day. this is the only environmental disaster i ve ever seen, and i don t want to see no more of them. i mean, it s hit us now. it s going to be six, seven, maybe ten years before we get fishing back to normal. here s why. thousands of dead shellfish were washed up on the northeast coastline last october. the fishing community blamed dredging work in the river tees. they re convinced a chemical called pyridine was released into the water.
called pyridine was released into the water. they want the mayoral authority to test for it before new dredging work begins for an offshore wind development in september. it s notjust pyridine, they think that it s agent orange, apparently from secret factories in the second world war. we ve also been told that it was russian submarines trying to cause problems for the uk government. so i m sure you re not suggesting and they re suggesting that we should be doing testing for those types of completely conspiratorial ideas because if we do that, we ll never get this development under way and finished and that s equally as damaging to the local people who in our local area want jobs and they want money in their pocket to look after themselves and their family. down the coast here in whitby, fishermen and women say they re also feeling the effects of last year s die off. and they, too, want more tests for pyridine. but the department for the environment, food and rural affairs say tests ha
they want the mayoral authority to test for it before new dredging work begins for an offshore wind development in september. it s notjust pyridine, they think that it s agent orange, apparently from secret factories in the second world war. we ve also been told that it was russian submarines trying to cause problems for the uk government. so i m sure you re not suggesting and they re suggesting that we should be doing testing for those types of completely conspiratorial ideas because if we do that, we ll never get this development under way and finished and that s equally as damaging to the local people who in our local area want jobs and they want money in their pocket to look after themselves and their family. down the coast here in whitby, fishermen and women say they re also feeling the effects of last year s die off. and they, too, want more tests for pyridine. but the department for the environment, food and rural affairs say tests have already been carried out. it believes alga