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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

Undulate ray

Undulate ray

Raja undulata

Method: Demersal Trawl

Hake by Sarah McCartney

Hake

Merluccius merluccius

Method: Gill Netting

Bass

Bass, Seabass

Dicentrarchus labrax

Method: Hook and line

Velvet crab by Sarah McCartney

Velvet crab

Necora puber

Method: Potting

Cuckoo Ray

Leucoraja naevus

Method: Gill Netting

Queen Scallops, Seafish

Queen Scallop

Mimachalmys varia

Method: Sail and Oar

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Where to buy

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Meet the Fishers

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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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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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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