On 1/30/2015 5:25 PM, sf wrote:
> > wrote:

>> Cockles were a basic food in coastal areas of Scotland since prehistoric
>> times - but in many areas in the latter part of the last century,
>> foreign fishing boats came in and scraped up vast quantities of them,
>> not leaving enough for natural regeneration.
>>
>> When I was a child, I remember going down at low tide with a rake, and
>> filling my bucket with them. But after the Spanish fishing fleet invaded
>> the Kyle there there were no more cockles to be found
>> There have been a few attempts to 'reseed' the area, and eventually
>> there may be enough for local people to once again harvest them.
>
> Someone needs to start farming them, which will mean local jobs.
>
There's an oyster farm out in the Kyle, but not many jobs connected to it.