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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

Plaice

Plaice

Pleuronectes platessa

Method: Demersal Trawl

mackerel by Sarah McCartney

Mackerel

Scomber scombrus

Method: Hook and line

Carrageenan seaweed

Seaweed

Various species

Method: Hand Collection

Anchovy

Anchovy

Engraulis encrasticolus

Method: Ring Netting

Cornish Sardine by Sarah McCartney

Cornish Sardine

Sardinus pilchardus

Method: Ring Netting

Queen Scallops, Seafish

Queen Scallop

Mimachalmys varia

Method: Sail and Oar

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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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