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Zoo may have to quarantine endangered crayfish

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About 70 of the endangered crustaceans were found dead around the River Wansbeck in Northumberland .

Environment Agency has ruled out pollution and crayfish plague as causes of death.

Zoo curator Lucy Edwards said her team were getting ready to quarantine several of the female craysfish remaining in the county.