Manx lobsters' radioactivity levels 96% lower than in 1998

Lobsters caught in Manx waters are now 96 per cent less radioactive than 25 years ago, according to the government.

A Freedom of Information request to the Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture asked about radioactivity testing in the seabed around the Island.

DEFA said it had recently uploaded years of reports to the government website about monitoring.

In the latest report, from 2023, it revealed levels of Technetium-99 in locally-caught lobsters had fallen from 400 Becquerels per kilo in 1998 to just 14.