Matthew Longshaw

I am currently the product development manager at Fish Vet Group.

Previously I was the Aquatic Animal Disease expert within the Environment and Animal Health group at Weymouth and team leader for the Population Health and Welfare team.

I have over 20 years experience in histopathology of non-mammalian aquatic animals and in parasite taxonomy and ecology.

Unusual cockle mortalities in the Burry Inlet, South Wales

Matthew Longshaw, 14 August 2015 - Animal Health, Aquaculture, Field Research, Monitoring, SFN 2015, Shellfish News

Mortalities in populations of edible cockles (Cerastoderma edule) have been reported across Europe in the past two decades from Spain, Portugal, France, Sweden and the Wadden Sea. Why are they happening?

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