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Crabs on cocaine and shrimps on speed: How raw sewage dumped in UK waters is damaging marine life

Source: HELEN YATES

A marine biologist has revealed raw sewage being dumped in the English Channel has left every marine species in the water “full of cocaine, amphetamines and MDMA”.

Traces of the drug routinely make their way into Britain’s after passing through users’ bodies, and could be altering the natural behaviour of some fish including whether they fight or take flight from danger.

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