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Sustainable Cornish Seafood

We can all help our oceans by making well informed decisions when choosing seafood. Look for Cornish seafood labelled with our recommended symbol. Here are a few species from our recommended seafood list.

Why should we care

bass

Bass, Seabass

Dicentrarchus labrax

Method: Demersal Trawl

Native Oyster

Native Oyster

Ostrea edulis

Method: Sail and Oar

Hake by Sarah McCartney

Hake

Merluccius merluccius

Method: Gill Netting

Carrageenan seaweed

Seaweed

Various species

Method: Hand Collection

Small eyed ray by Marc Dando

Small eyed ray

Raja microocellata

Method: Demersal Trawl

Striped red mullet

Red mullet

Mullus surmuletus

Method: Demersal Trawl

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Where to buy

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Meet the Fishers

Barry Preston

Port: Mevagissey

Meet Barry Preston, who fishes out of Mevagissey using hand lines and gill nets! 

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Joe Emmett

Joe Emmett

Port: Newquay

Joe Emmett fishes sustainably using pots to catch brown crab, spider crab and lobster, and handlines for mackerel and pollack from the North Cornish port of Newquay.

You can see what is being caught and order on Instagram or contact via 07970378680. 

 

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News

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Cornwall Good Seafood Guide is underpinned by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) Good Fish Guide. The first UK consumer guide to sustainable seafood. For more information visit www.fishonline.org

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