While diving off Selsey, Sussex, England to help a local fisherman to renew
his mooring I found a number of live oysters. They were lying on the seabed
amongst the moorings close to concrete blocks which had iron chains
attached.  The opinion of a few old sages was that the oysters were inedible
because they were close to the iron chains.  Is there a connection?

Others thought that the oysters being off the beach in the Solent, in a
tidal area, were ok to eat.  My friend told me he ate them on Monday and he
is still around. :-))))))))

Is the English Channel so polluted that the shell fish can not be eaten?

Eddie
(who doesn't like oysters)