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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

Sand Sole

Sand Sole

Pegusa lascaris

Method: Demersal Trawl

Velvet crab by Sarah McCartney

Velvet crab

Necora puber

Method: Potting

Cornish Sardine by Sarah McCartney

Cornish Sardine

Sardinus pilchardus

Method: Ring Netting

mackerel by Sarah McCartney

Mackerel

Scomber scombrus

Method: Hook and line

Spider crab by Sarah McCartney

Cornish King Crab

Maja brachydactyla

Method: Potting

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Meet the Fishers

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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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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