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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

Plaice

Plaice

Pleuronectes platessa

Method: Demersal Trawl

White Monkfish

Monkfish, white

Lophius piscatorius

Method: Demersal Trawl

Coley

Coley

Pollachius virens

Method: Hook and line

Sand Sole

Sand Sole

Pegusa lascaris

Method: Demersal Trawl

Cuckoo Ray

Leucoraja naevus

Method: Demersal Trawl

Spider crab by Sarah McCartney

Cornish King Crab

Maja brachydactyla

Method: Potting

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Where to buy

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Meet the Fishers

Ben Lowe

Ben Lowe

Port: Newquay

Ben Lowe is a young fisher who goes out to sea onboard his ten-metre catamaran Lola Belle PH33. He supplies line-caught fish and pot-caught crab and lobster.


You can find out what he's up to via his Twitter or on 07860927833.

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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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News

Summer 2024 Ratings Review - bad news for brown crab

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

Season's Greetings - A Christmas update

New ratings announced - some major changes

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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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