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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

Scallop by Sarah McCartney

Scallop

Pecten maximus

gilthead bream

Gilthead bream

Sparus auratus

Method: Hook and line

black seabream by Marc Dando

Black Seabream

Spondyliosoma cantharus

Method: Hook and line

Thornback ray

Thornback ray

Raja clavata

Method: Gill Netting

Native Oyster

Native Oyster

Ostrea edulis

Method: Sail and Oar

Hake by Sarah McCartney

Hake

Merluccius merluccius

Method: Gill Netting

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Where to buy

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Meet the Fishers

Peter Green

Port: St. Mawes

Peter fishes from St.Mawes and together with his wife Angie, they run St.Mawes seafood. His family go back as seafarers in St.Mawes for 300 years and he is very passionate about trying to keep their fishing heritage alive. He has been fishing for over 40 years, first going to sea on a local trawler as a 9th birthday present. 

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Ben George

Ben George

Port: Sennen Cove

Ben George handline fishes from the beautiful Sennen Cove, close to Land's End. 

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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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