AR-News: (UK) Bans make cockle-selling a lucrative trade

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Robin Young



Cockles, recognised as a valuable and delicious food since the days of the 
Ancient Britons, are this country's most valuable mollusc fishery. 


Though Morecambe Bay is better known traditionally as a source of shrimps, 
the value of its cockles has been inflated of late by controversial bans imposed 
by the Food Standards Agency on many other English and Welsh cockle beds, 
where allegedly dangerous levels of toxin have been discovered in the shellfish.
Most Britons know cockles only from the tiny platefuls sold at the seaside or 
from seafood stalls sited near some popular public houses in London.





full story:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-991749,00.html 
 


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