Oral Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
“What recent progress his Department has made on investigating crustacean die-offs along the North East coast in 2021.”
Tabled: 6 November 2024Answered: 14 November 2024
Asked by
Mr Jonathan Brash
Labour — Hartlepool
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs (Daniel Zeichner)
An independent expert panel reviewed the 2021 crustacean die-off event and published its findings last year. It could not identify a clear single cause for the crustacean mortality. The Government are keeping the situation under review and a coastal health programme was recently established to improve coastal monitoring.