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12 October 2015

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Protecting our natural world

Please see the link below to a document from DEFRA explaining the dangers of releasing non-native species into our seas. With this document you will also find a fact sheet on how to identify a non-native species of lobster.

Protecting our natural world

Non native lobster fact sheet

Non native crab fact sheet

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