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.
Port: Mevagissey
Dave fishes from the Port of Mevagissey. His boat the Valhalla is 12m long, and he fishes for a wide range of species using a demersal trawl with large mesh to reduce bycatch of small fish.
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Port: Mylor
Chris Ranger fishes for native oysters and queen scallops aboard his traditional oyster working boat the Alf Smythers. Fishing using oyster dredges the traditional way under sail and oar. Chis is also a registered fish merchant supplying a wide range of purified local sustainable shellfish.
Oysters are great seafood for sustainability. Cornish native oysters and farmed Pacific oysters are both great species to be choose but now there are also wild caught Pacific oysters on the market. These oysters are a threat to Cornwall's marine life and they need to be controlled so we should be eating them!
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We are now calling for input from the public and the seafood industry following our annual summer seafood sustainability ratings review.
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Incredible biodiversity on Fal oyster fishery, notes from a day out on the Fal Oyster Survey 2019
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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
