Illegal cockle picking and over-harvesting in 2014 are some of the factors being blamed for the move. Currently, 53 licences for commercial cockle picking on the estuary are issued every year.

A beauty spot beach is 'decimated' by illegal cockle-picking with up to 250 people grabbing the seaside delicacy from the shore. Gangs of pickers appeared 'en masse' with containers and salt ...

Local cockle pickers say that pollution from a nearby sewage works is to blame, although water company chiefs dispute the claim. About 6,000 tons of cockles, worth £7million, were wiped out at ...

Illegal cockle picking has been taking place on a large scale at a protected site in West Sussex, the BBC has found. Groups of men, women and children have been filmed collecting large quantities ...

Last summer I went "on the sands" with a bunch of licensed cockle pickers (many of them fourth or fifth generation) in south Wales. The tools are much the same as they were in Roman times ...

BRITAIN: The bodies of some of the 23 Chinese cockle-pickers drowned at Morecambe Bay last February finally returned to their… BRITAIN: The bodies of some of the 23 Chinese cockle-pickers ...

"Police told one family to put everything back but the cockle-pickers simply move to another beach. "I used to take my son cockling when he was young but we only had a bucket and we cleaned them ...

Local artist Micheal McKeown says he didn't have to search too hard for inspiration when he won a commission to create a piece of public artwork for the promenade in Blackrock. Cockle picking has ...

22 of the 23 victims of the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster - The final victim's picture was never released. It has been 20 years since 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned when they were cut off by ...

A cockle-picker died after collapsing off the Wirral coastline this morning. The 59-year-old was pronounced dead despite a massive rescue effort involving police, ambulances, the coastguard and ...

Illegal cockle picking and over-harvesting in 2014 are some of the factors being blamed for the move. Currently, 53 licences for commercial cockle picking on the estuary are issued every year.