Ocean Rebellion dump crabs outside DEFRA over North East deaths
Date of alert:
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Crime Ref:
Force:
Cleveland Police
DEFRA need to tell the truth about the needless loss of marine life happening on North East beaches, protestors claimed this morning as they poured piles of dead and rotting crabs outside of the department's offices in London.
Ocean Rebellion used to crab protest to ask the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to “tell the truth” about the “needless” loss of marine life happening on North East beaches.
Protestors turned up outside of DEFRA’s offices dressed in fishing gear and proceeded to pour the boxes of dead and rotting crabs onto the ground.
They then left the scene after holding up placards reading “as the sea dies we die”, and “no more fish in the sea.”
A spokesperson for the activist group said the investigators were testing “chemical poisoning.”
They told The Northern Echo: “They were there to conduct the independent and unbiased investigation that DEFRA should be having carried out in the Teesside area.
“The investigators sealed off the area with the Climate Crime Scene tape, carefully cleaned the site, making sure the toxic mess didn’t infect the environment.
“Unlike the dredging that’s happening in the mouth of the River Tees and, unlike DEFRA, they tested for chemicals including Pyridine.”
