Thousands of shellfish wash up dead on north-east England’s coast

Incident at Saltburn-by-the-Sea occurs in same area as number of die-offs reported in 2021 and 2022

Thousands more dead or dying shellfish have washed up on a beach on the same stretch of coast that saw a number of crustacean die-offs in autumn 2021 and last year.

Visitors to Saltburn-by-the-Sea, a few miles south-east of the River Tees, were met by the sight of hundreds of thousands of dead mussels on the shoreline, as well as starfish, crabs and razor clams.