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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

Native Oyster

Native Oyster

Ostrea edulis

Method: Sail and Oar

Velvet crab by Sarah McCartney

Velvet crab

Necora puber

Method: Potting

Carrageenan seaweed

Seaweed

Various species

Method: Hand Collection

Scallop by Sarah McCartney

Scallop

Pecten maximus

Hake by Sarah McCartney

Hake

Merluccius merluccius

Method: Gill Netting

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Where to buy

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Meet the Fishers

Ben Lowe

Ben Lowe

Port: Newquay

Ben Lowe is a young fisher who goes out to sea onboard his ten-metre catamaran Lola Belle PH33. He supplies line-caught fish and pot-caught crab and lobster.


You can find out what he's up to via his Twitter or on 07860927833.

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Bonnie Grace

James Roberts

Port: Newlyn

James fishes out at Mounts Bay using pots, gill nets and handlines. He has been around fishing, boats and harbours since he was 9 years old. He started full time when he left school and brought his first boat at 19.

 

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News

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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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