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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

Cuckoo Ray

Leucoraja naevus

Method: Gill Netting

Velvet crab by Sarah McCartney

Velvet crab

Necora puber

Method: Potting

mussel

Mussels

Mytilus edulis

Method: Farmed

Bass

Bass, Seabass

Dicentrarchus labrax

Method: Hook and line

Megrim

Cornish Sole, Megrim

Lepidirhombus whiffogonia

Method: Demersal Trawl

Spurdog by Marc Dando

Spurdog

Squalus acanthias

Method: Gill Netting

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Where to buy

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Meet the Fishers

Nick Mackrory

Nick Mackrory

Port: Percuil Estuary

Nick is a handline fisherman – fishing from the Percuil estuary aboard his boat Gemini BD18.

 
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David Stevens, Crystal Sea

David Stevens

Port: Newlyn

David Stevens is skipper of the modern 20m trawler the Crystal sea. He fishes using a twin rig demersal trawl and has made numerous adaptations to the gear to improve its sustainability by reducing unwanted by catch. 

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Recipes

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News

Winter ratings review 2026 now live

Summer 2025 Ratings Review - consultation LIVE

Summer 2024 Ratings Review - bad news for brown crab

Winter 2023/24 Ratings Updates - inc. a NEW tuna fishery

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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.mcsuk.org/goodfishguide/

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