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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

Velvet crab by Sarah McCartney

Velvet crab

Necora puber

Method: Potting

Native Oyster

Native Oyster

Ostrea edulis

Method: Sail and Oar

Megrim

Cornish Sole, Megrim

Lepidirhombus whiffogonia

Method: Demersal Trawl

Thornback ray

Thornback ray

Raja clavata

Method: Gill Netting

mackerel by Sarah McCartney

Mackerel

Scomber scombrus

Method: Hook and line

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Meet the Fishers

Peter Green

Port: St. Mawes

Peter fishes from St.Mawes. 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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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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News

Summer 2025 Ratings Review - consultation LIVE

Summer 2024 Ratings Review - bad news for brown crab

Winter 2023/24 Ratings Updates - inc. a NEW tuna fishery

Season's Greetings - A Christmas update

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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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