It was definitely a very sad incident. Linda and I visited Morecombe a couple of years ago when we came up for the Lancaster Easter Marine Festival. We deliberately drove there because of the fame of it's shellfish, but found only one shop which was closed. We saw no shellfish stalls anywhere in the Blackpool area either. Do the folks up there actually eat shellfish, or are they all sent elsewhere ? If I went to any resort on the south coast, there would be plenty of stalls around - even in our area of SE london/NW Kent we could find probably half a dozen stalls within a few miles on the weekend.

I suppose that means that these poor souls probably drowned trying to supply markets down here.