 Cocklers said conditions in Morecambe Bay could be dangerous |
Two men arrested after the deaths of 19 cockle pickers in Morecambe Bay have been released on police bail. The men voluntarily went to a police station on Monday afternoon.
Lancashire police are still questioning three men and two women, who were among the survivors, on suspicion of manslaughter.
Magistrates have given police a further 36 hours to question the five people arrested on Sunday.
The two men were released at 1400 GMT on police bail to re-appear at a police station on 12 April.
Cockle pickers have gone back to work in Morecambe Bay on Tuesday after Lancashire police declared that the area was no longer a crime scene.
They are working close to where more than 30 cocklers were trapped by rising water in the Hest Bank area of the Lancashire bay on Thursday night.
 |  Those Chinese workers should not have been out there in those conditions  |
About 100 pickers, some on foot and others on tractors and quad bikes, gathered along the shoreline at Bolton-le-Sands near Hest Bank.
The pickers went out onto the sands at about 0500 GMT and had returned to shore by 1030 GMT with the morning's catch.
Shaun Scourfield, from Prestatyn, in North Wales, said he had come to Morecambe Bay on Monday but picked no cockles.
"The amount of rain we have had flowing into the channels and the lifting tides meant we decided to go home and call it a bad day," he said.
"Those Chinese workers should not have been out there in those conditions."
Gary Meadows, from Southport, has cockled in Morecambe Bay since he was 18.
 With shifting sands and deep gullies, the area is treacherous |
"Every day you go out, it is different," he said. "It's a very dangerous channel. The ground is always moving around - it is very weird."
He said he and his team were not working last week because of the night tides.
The coroner has set up a commission to identify the pickers, none of whom has been named.
But Preston and West Lancashire coroner Howard McCann said the language barrier and "absence of relatives" in the UK was making identification "very difficult".
She urged any relatives, friends or colleagues who might be able to help with identification to come forward.
Police chiefs also met members of the local fishing community, which is considering erecting a statue as a permanent memorial to those who died.
On Tuesday, the flag at the RNLI station on Morecambe promenade was flying at half mast.
Police number for witnesses or those with information - 01524 63333
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