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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

Dab by Marc Dando

Dab

Limanda limada

Method: Demersal Trawl

Megrim

Cornish Sole, Megrim

Lepidirhombus whiffogonia

Method: Demersal Trawl

Plaice

Plaice

Pleuronectes platessa

Method: Demersal Trawl

Carrageenan seaweed

Seaweed

Various species

Method: Hand Collection

mussel

Mussels

Mytilus edulis

Method: Farmed

Spider crab by Sarah McCartney

Cornish King Crab

Maja brachydactyla

Method: Potting

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Where to buy

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Meet the Fishers

Barry Preston

Port: Mevagissey

Meet Barry Preston, who fishes out of Mevagissey using hand lines and gill nets! 

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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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Recipes

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How to guides

News

Winter ratings review 2026 now live

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

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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.mcsuk.org/goodfishguide/

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