Hundreds of islanders headed to the Bailiwick's shoreline to collect ormers Guernsey's Sea Fisheries officers carried out shoreline patrols for the first ormering tide of 2012.

The Committee for Economic Development has reintroduced the ban after concerns about the sustainability of stocks of the sea snail. The next ormering season begins on Friday 6 January.

The next ormering season begins on Friday 6 January. A ban was first introduced in 1933, but was unintentionally removed in the 1990s when the controls on other species, including lady crabs and ...