Pollution? Let’s just ask the cockles

Thursday 30th April 2009, 2:59PM BST.

From Chris Whitworth.
I WAS interested to read your front-page article (JEP, 24 April) ‘Marine life put at risk’ regarding the pollution caused by the works at La Collette.

For over four years now I have walked my six-year-old son Daniel around this area when the tide is out. This year it has become noticeable that the cockles just below the reclaimed area are preferring to live above the sea-bed as opposed to beneath it when the tide is out.

Even the many seagulls around are not interested in a free meal. As there seem to be fewer and fewer living cockles as each week goes by – it was quite surreal a few months back – I have taken a picture of Daniel with some of the cockles still to be found lying around.

The question is, if Transport ad Technical Services are so sure that this beach is not being polluted, why do the cockles prefer to risk life in the open instead of beneath the sand?
Evanston,
Green Street,
St Helier.

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Adrian

April 30, 2009 at 7:40 pm

To help dispel fears of pollution maybe whoever is responsible for this would be happy to eat the said molluscs and to have their health monitored, to check that all is ok? If they don’t fall ill we will indeed know there is nothing to worry about!

Is anyone brave enough to do this?

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Adrian

May 9, 2009 at 12:07 pm

Will no one take my offer up to eat these pristine cockles then? What are people scared of? We have been assured everything is safe by the authorities, so there is no need to worry is there?

Surely it isn’t because people don’t believe the authorities?

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