article_snippet: Now locals are reaping the benefits of a community-led project to reintroduce the shellfish industry to the area, with the ripening of the first crop.
article_snippet: Locals in Somerset have been seen with mobile stalls on the beach, offering people the chance to sample the first harvest from the waters for more than a century.
article_snippet: But after the natural crop were ruined, a community project was launched.
article_snippet: the natural crop has ripened for the first time in 120 years and sellers were seen on the beach with the shellfish .
article_snippet: The group, known as Porlock Futures hope to make the business the first community sustainable shellfish farm in England and Wales.
highlights_snippet: The crop was decimated when the seabed were swept by powerful trawlers .
  
highlights_snippet: Small group joined forces to grow the shellfish on Somerset coast again .
  
highlights_snippet: Small group enjoyed Small group first crop for 120 years and hope to expand industry .
  