Cockle (bivalve)
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A cockle is a marine bivalve mollusc. Although many small edible bivalves are loosely called cockles, true cockles are species in the family Cardiidae.
Coque blanche
Acrosterigma cignorum
Ctenocardia fornicata
Ctenocardia virgo
On the evening of 5 February 2004, at least 22 Chinese labourers were drowned by an incoming tide at Morecambe Bay in Lancashire, North West England, while illegally harvesting cockles off the coast.
Cockle (bivalve)
…known as cockle-picking. Collecting cockles is hard work and can be dangerous if local tidal conditions are not carefully watched, as seen from the Morecambe Bay disaster, in which 23 cockle-pickers drowned after being caught in high tides. Boiled cockles (sometimes grilled) are sold at many hawker centres in Southeast…
An aerial image of the bay in 2007
Praying Shell, a 2013 sculpture by Anthony Padgett located near Red Bank Farm, on the edge of Morecambe Bay
Trident fishing gallaeus
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