![]() Marine Biologist and member of the North Eastern Fishing Collective, Joe Redfern, joined the fishing community to commission the report by four universities. "We’re having to work longer hours and put more gear in to try and keep our catch rates up, just so we can survive." "We’ve lost a lot of men out of the industry, crew members, a lot of boats are going with less crew than what they normally would. Mr Cole said: "It decimated the stock and only now have we started to see a little bit of improvement over the past month, but before, what we have just gone through was absolute torture. It comes after the publication of a report on Thursday 29 September, which claimed to have evidence that an industrial chemical and dredging may have been the cause. James Cole, the chairman of the Whitby Fisherman's Association has joined calls for the government to halt dredging in the River Tees and reopen an investigation into the deaths. A fisherman from Whitby has told ITV News Tyne Tees his industry has been "decimated" by the mass deaths of crabs and crustaceans in Autumn 2021 and said it had been "absolute torture".
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