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zigs



Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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Location: Somerset
PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 10 7:32 pm    Post subject: Cockle picking Reply with quote
    

I was looking for info on closed seasons/bylaws etc. for our local cockle beds, coudn't find anything specific but i did find this article by Mike Thrusell, which may be of interest.

https://www.worldseafishing.com/baits/cockles.html

Don't mind a cockle meself. Did find a scallop stranded on the beach, took it home & put it in a bucket to wash itself out, but it died within the hour, so i cooked it and ate it straight away. In the morning little Willow looked in the bucket and said "Daddy, wheres Scott ?" Teacher wern't to happy when she said daddy had eaten her pet

Tavascarow



Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall
PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 10 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I thought the rule with shellfish was only eat them when there's an r in the month, September to April.
& only eat the healthy ones.
How are you feeling?

zigs



Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 524
Location: Somerset
PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 10 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Depends where you pick them from, wouldn't want to eat filter feeders from near a sewage outfall. Have eaten mussells in august with no ill effects. But then again, have caught a virus from kayaking near the butlins sewage outfall in north wales that lasted 3 months, and i didn't eat that !

cab



Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 10 9:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I used to follow some of the experienced cocklers around in Morecambe bay. When you're out on mud, its critically important to know local conditions very, very well indeed. Same stretch of mud claimed the lives of those poor Chinese immigrants a few years back

Generally speaking, for when and where to pick, local knowledge is top for shellfish.

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