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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

gilthead bream

Gilthead bream

Sparus auratus

Method: Hook and line

Thornback ray

Thornback ray

Raja clavata

Method: Gill Netting

black seabream by Marc Dando

Black Seabream

Spondyliosoma cantharus

Method: Hook and line

mackerel by Sarah McCartney

Mackerel

Scomber scombrus

Method: Hook and line

Velvet crab by Sarah McCartney

Velvet crab

Necora puber

Method: Potting

Cornish Sardine by Sarah McCartney

Cornish Sardine

Sardinus pilchardus

Method: Ring Netting

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Meet the Fishers

Will Shugg

Will Shugg

Port: Mevagissey

Will Shugg fishes from Mevagissey, netting for mackerel and sole from his small wooden boat the Radjel.

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Nick Mackrory

Nick Mackrory

Port: Percuil Estuary

Nick is a handline fisherman – fishing from the Percuil estuary aboard his boat Gemini BD18.

 
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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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