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Home›News›Best Practice Guidance on Crustacea Handling and Despatch

17 March 2022

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Best Practice Guidance on Crustacea Handling and Despatch

Please see the link below to a press release from the SAGB/Seafish press regarding the joint project Developing Best practice Guidance on Crustacea Handling: SAGB Media release Developing best practice guidance on crustacea handling and despatch

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