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FULL LIST OF RECOMMENDED SPECIES

March 2024

How we rate fish

Cornwall Good Seafood Guide rates sustainability using a scale of 1 to 5. With one being the best score a fishery can attain. 1, 2 and 3 are recommended by Cornwall Good Seafood Guide.

This list is all of the fish and capture method combinations that are currently recommended as sustainable.

To view a full list of ratings please visit www.cornwallgoodseafoodguide.org.uk

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  • SPECIES
  • FISHING METHOD
  • SCORE
  • AnchovyEngraulis encrasticolus
  • Ring Netting
  • 3
  • Bass, SeabassDicentrarchus labrax
  • Demersal Trawl
    Hook and line
  • 3
    3
  • Black SeabreamSpondyliosoma cantharus
  • Hook and line
  • 3
  • BrillScophthalmus rhombus
  • Demersal Trawl
    Demersal Trawl
    Gill Netting
    Beam Trawling
  • 3
    3
    3
    3
  • Cornish King CrabMaja brachydactyla
  • Potting
  • 3
  • Cornish SardineSardinus pilchardus
  • Ring Netting
  • 2
  • Cornish Sole, Megrim Lepidirhombus whiffogonia
  • Beam Trawling
    Demersal Trawl
  • 3
    2
  • Crab, Brown, EdibleCancer pagurus
  • Potting
    Gill Netting
    Potting
  • 3
    3
    3
  • Cuckoo RayLeucoraja naevus
  • Beam Trawling
    Gill Netting
    Demersal Trawl
  • 3
    3
    3
  • DabLimanda limada
  • Demersal Trawl
  • 3
  • Gilthead breamSparus auratus
  • Hook and line
  • 3
  • HaddockMelanogrammus aeglefinus
  • Demersal Trawl
    Beam Trawling
    Gill Netting
  • 3
    3
    3
  • HakeMerluccius merluccius
  • Demersal Trawl
    Gill Netting
  • 2
    1
  • LingMolva molva
  • Longlining
    Demersal Trawl
  • 3
    3
  • LobsterHommarus gammarus
  • Potting
  • 3
  • Mackerel Scomber scombrus
  • Gill Netting
    Ring Netting
    Hook and line
  • 3
    3
    2
  • Monkfish, black belliedLophius budegassa
  • Demersal Trawl
    Beam Trawling
    Gill Netting
  • 2
    3
    3
  • Monkfish, whiteLophius piscatorius
  • Demersal Trawl
    Gill Netting
    Beam Trawling
  • 2
    3
    3
  • MusselsMytilus edulis
  • Hand Collection
    Farmed
  • 2
    1
  • Native OysterOstrea edulis
  • Sail and Oar
  • 3
  • Pacific oysterMagallana gigas
  • Hand Collection
    Farmed
  • 1
    1
  • PlaicePleuronectes platessa
  • Demersal Trawl
    Beam Trawling
    Demersal Trawl
    Gill Netting
  • 2
    3
    3
    3
  • PrawnsPalaemon serratus
  • Potting
  • 3
  • Queen ScallopMimachalmys varia
  • Sail and Oar
  • 3
  • Red GurnardAspitrigla cuculus
  • Demersal Trawl
  • 3
  • Red mulletMullus surmuletus
  • Demersal Trawl
    Gill Netting
  • 3
    3
  • Sand SolePegusa lascaris
  • Demersal Trawl
  • 3
  • ScallopPecten maximus
  • Diver Collected
  • 3
  • Seaweed Various species
  • Hand Collection
    Farmed
  • 2
    2
  • Small eyed rayRaja microocellata
  • Demersal Trawl
  • 3
  • Sole, Dover sole Solea solea
  • Demersal Trawl
    Gill Netting
    Beam Trawling
    Demersal Trawl
    Beam Trawling
  • 2
    3
    3
    2
    2
  • SpurdogSqualus acanthias
  • Demersal Trawl
    Gill Netting
    Beam Trawling
  • 3
    3
    3
  • Thornback rayRaja clavata
  • Gill Netting
    Demersal Trawl
    Beam Trawling
  • 3
    3
    3
  • Velvet crabNecora puber
  • Potting
  • 3

Cornwall Good Seafood Guide is a project of Cornwall Wildlife Trust.

Cornwall Good Seafood Guide seafood ratings are underpinned and recognised by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) Good Fish Guide. The first UK consumer guide to sustainable seafood. For more information visit www.fishonline.org.

Cornwall Good Seafood Guide is funded by, EU fisheries fund and MMO, Dewsign and our business supporters.

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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