Cornwall Good Seafood Guide logo

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

Sand Sole

Sand Sole

Pegusa lascaris

Method: Demersal Trawl

Prawn

Prawns

Palaemon serratus

Method: Potting

Undulate ray

Undulate ray

Raja undulata

Method: Demersal Trawl

Cornish Sardine by Sarah McCartney

Cornish Sardine

Sardinus pilchardus

Method: Ring Netting

Megrim

Cornish Sole, Megrim

Lepidirhombus whiffogonia

Method: Demersal Trawl

mussel

Mussels

Mytilus edulis

Method: Farmed

View all recommended species Download recommended species PDF Join as a business supporter

Where to buy

gold_standardNEW Gold standard businesses have taken a pledge to only supply sustainable Cornish seafood, find out more here.

Find and buy Cornish Seafood

Meet the Fishers

Bonnie Grace

James Roberts

Port: Newlyn

James fishes out at Mounts Bay using pots, gill nets and handlines. He has been around fishing, boats and harbours since he was 9 years old. He started full time when he left school and brought his first boat at 19.

 

Read more
Christopher Key

Christopher Key

Port: Boscastle

Chris and his crewman Scott fish out of Boscastle during the summer months mainly working about 50 pots. They also line for mackerel and bass and from time to time undertake some gill netting and long lining. 

 

Read more
Read more stories

Recipes

View all recipes

How to guides

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

View all news

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

Website by Dewsign. Dewsign pro bono client