Two people fined for selling Lake Illawarra cockles on social media

Kate McIlwain
Updated January 11 2020 - 12:03pm, first published 11:30am
Illawarra resident John Davey has been calling for action after seeing several groups of fishers collecting more than the limit of cockles from Lake Illawarra late last year. Picture: John Davey
Illawarra resident John Davey has been calling for action after seeing several groups of fishers collecting more than the limit of cockles from Lake Illawarra late last year. Picture: John Davey

Two people have been fined almost $30,000 for illegally harvesting and selling cockles from Lake Illawarra.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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