Fishers hold River Tees protest over mass crab and lobster deaths
by Mark Brown North of England correspondent from on (#5ZDWQ)
Demonstrators rejecting algal bloom explanation for wash-ups on England's north-east coast call for investigation to be reopened
About 25 fishing boats have sailed into the mouth of the River Tees while setting off flares and fireworks in a protest over mass marine deaths that are ruining livelihoods as well as being a huge ecological disaster".
More than 200 well-wishers, many representing conservation and environmental campaigns, cheered from the shore, chanted Stop the sludge" and sang protest songs.
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