Government fisheries inspector measuring the size of freshly caught crab with Calipers, Lindisfarne, Holy Island, Northumberland, UK
Lindisfarne or Lindesfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England. It is now known as Holy Island (especially in the north-east). A causeway connects the island to the mainland of Northumberland, though it is flooded twice a day by tides. Edible crab landing sizes were introduced at EC level for the first time on 1 January 2000. The sizes are: • 140mm north of 56°N both to West of Scotland and in the North Sea; • 130 mm in the remainder of the North Sea except the Eastern Sea Fisheries District; • 115 mm in the Eastern Sea Fisheries District; • 140mm in the Channel and around the Southwest Peninsula areas VIId, e and f; • 130mm elsewhere adult, adults, alive, animal, appropriate, aquatic, autonomy, available, body, british, broad-clawed, caliper, calipers, catch, centimeter, claw, closeup, close-up, clothing, commercial, commercially, crab, crabs, crawfish, crawl, crayfish, creature, crustacea, crustacean, crustaceans, decapods, device, dimensions, edible, england, english, europe, exoskeleton, female, figure, figures, fish, fisheries, fishermen, fitness, food, foods, fresh, front, gauge, girth, glove, gloves, great britain, hands, hard, harvest, healthcare, history, holy, inspection, inspector, island, isolated, legal, length, lindisfarne, live, male, man, meal, measure, measured, measurement, measuring, meat, meter, natural, nature, northumberland, number, people, picked, pincers, protection, protective, regs, regulations, routine, rubber, ruler, scale, sea, seafood, shell, shellfish, single, size, sized, sizes, sizing, species, sport, studio, swimming, swirl, tailor, tape, tool, uk, united kingdom, velvet, visible, waist, white, woman, workwear, work-wear
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Location: Lindisfarne Holy Island Northumberland uk
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