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Focus on North Sea: Pollution; AT SEA MS Net in water (as shot from deck) ON DECK MS Fisherman on deck as struggling to turn wheel MS Net alongside trawler Ms Fisherman on deck as intvw heard SOT - There's sickness in the fish nowadays MS Nets swung out from boat PAN L-R (Shaky pix) MS Crew on deck MS Crew about by nets PAN AROUND CS Bows of boat as cuts through waves CMS Mick Whittingstall (Fisherman) intvwd SOT - The food chain has been damaged SCOTLAND: Aberdeen: Ythan Estuary GV Ythan Estuary CS Hands digging about in algae GV Vast expanse of algae GV Fields close to estuary MS Various waterfowl on choppy water CMS Black and White duck on estuary MS Ducks in flight and then land on water PAN L-R INT CMS Bob Davies (Warden, Ythan Estuary Nature Reserve) intvwd SOT - The longer it is before something is done, the worse it gets EXT ENGLAND: The Wash CS Mussels as being dug up MS Men collecting mussels with special spade-liketools MS Mussels thrown into sea water to wash off sand LMs Men by boat as collecting mussels MS Ditto MS Mussels collected in bottom of rowing boat CS Ditto INT CS Mussels in tank in lab PULL OUT Plymouth Marine Laboratory MS Large flask of bubbling green liquid on lab worktop CS Ditto CMS Dr Tony Stebbing (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) intvwd SOT - Mussels are a representative sample of life in the N Sea that we test/We are looking at the effects of pollution on the N sea as a whole CS Mussel in tank EXT The Wash CMS McGinty i/c along bank of mussels SOT MISTY Teeside LS Buildings with seal on beach f/g LMS Three seals playing on beach LS Seal in water (head just seen) LS Seals lying on sandbank CMS Sue Wilson (Seal Ecologist) intvwd SOT - On bad health of seal pups who were born and died in the area/PCBs...