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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

White Monkfish

Monkfish, white

Lophius piscatorius

Method: Demersal Trawl

Small eyed ray by Marc Dando

Small eyed ray

Raja microocellata

Method: Demersal Trawl

Velvet crab by Sarah McCartney

Velvet crab

Necora puber

Method: Potting

Carrageenan seaweed

Seaweed

Various species

Method: Hand Collection

Bass

Bass, Seabass

Dicentrarchus labrax

Method: Hook and line

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Meet the Fishers

Luke Marshall, Rock Shellfish

Luke Marshall

Port: Porthilly Farm, Rock

Luke Marshall is a second generation shellfish farmer. From their base at Porthilly farm near Rock the Marshall family have been farming shellfish in the Camel estuary for over twenty years. Porthilly oysters and Rock Mussels are renowned for their quality and sustainablity and feature on menus across the county and further afeild.

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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. 

 

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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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