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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

Spurdog by Marc Dando

Spurdog

Squalus acanthias

Method: Demersal Trawl

mackerel by Sarah McCartney

Mackerel

Scomber scombrus

Method: Hook and line

Carrageenan seaweed

Seaweed

Various species

Method: Hand Collection

gilthead bream

Gilthead bream

Sparus auratus

Method: Hook and line

White Monkfish

Monkfish, white

Lophius piscatorius

Method: Demersal Trawl

Red Gurnard by Sarah McCartney

Red Gurnard

Aspitrigla cuculus

Method: Demersal Trawl

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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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Nick Mackrory

Nick Mackrory

Port: Percuil Estuary

Nick is a handline fisherman – fishing from the Percuil estuary aboard his boat Gemini BD18.

 
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Recipes

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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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