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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

Carrageenan seaweed

Seaweed

Various species

Method: Hand Collection

Crab, Brown

Crab, Brown, Edible

Cancer pagurus

Method: Potting

Small eyed ray by Marc Dando

Small eyed ray

Raja microocellata

Method: Demersal Trawl

bass

Bass, Seabass

Dicentrarchus labrax

Method: Demersal Trawl

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Meet the Fishers

Danny and Tommy Phillips

Danny and Tommy Phillips

Port: Cadgwith

Danny Phillips and his son Tommy fish from their boat “Scorpio” out of the rocky Cadgwith Cove. They target shellfish and bottom-dwelling fish using pots and tangle nets in the life-rich waters off the Lizard Point. In the winter they switch to using smaller gill nets to catch red mullet. 
 
 
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Luke Marshall, Rock Shellfish

Luke Marshall

Port: Porthilly Farm, Rock

Luke Marshall is a second generation shellfish farmer. From their base at Porthilly farm near Rock the Marshall family have been farming shellfish in the Camel estuary for over twenty years. Porthilly oysters and Rock Mussels are renowned for their quality and sustainablity and feature on menus across the county and further afeild.

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News

Season's Greetings - A Christmas update

New ratings announced - some major changes

Winter ratings review consultation open 2023

The Dark and Inky Art of Squid Fishing

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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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