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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

Spurdog by Marc Dando

Spurdog

Squalus acanthias

Method: Gill Netting

Thornback ray

Thornback ray

Raja clavata

Method: Beam Trawling

Dab by Marc Dando

Dab

Limanda limada

Method: Demersal Trawl

Hake by Sarah McCartney

Hake

Merluccius merluccius

Method: Demersal Trawl

mussel

Mussels

Mytilus edulis

Method: Farmed

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Where to buy

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Meet the Fishers

Jake Gilbert

Port: Newquay

Jake has been running Serene for the last 8 years and fishes sustainabily by potting for crabs and lobsters out of Newquay harbour.

If you would like to contact Jake please use 07531429541.

 

 

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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.

 

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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.fishonline.org

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