Once much maligned, the marvellous (if somewhat unfortunate-looking) monkfish is now hugely popular and features on the menus of restaurants up and down the country.
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The Whelk quest ends – in the most unlikeliest of places
A few years ago I embarked on a quest to discover a magical, wonderful, or even just half-decent, Whelk recipe. The quest is over!
‘Plymouth Fish Finger’ to showcase lesser-known fish species
A fish finger made from lesser-know species of fish such as dogfish and pouting has been launched in Plymouth.
Season’s first bluefin tuna landed in South West
The first of this season’s bluefin tuna has started appearing in fishmarkets in the South West of England.
Time to celebrate the start of herring season
Affordable, easy to prepare, easy to cook and incredibly good for us – it’s time to celebrate the start of this year’s main North Sea herring season.
Crab and lobster ‘best practice’ welfare guide released
A best practice guide for handling and dispatching of live crustaceans such as lobster and crab has been released by the UK seafood industry.
Quality Cornish seafood coming to a Morrisons near you
Supermarket chain Morrisons has opened the UK’s largest fish freezing centre in Cornwall which it says will help bring the ‘freshest fish for customers’ to its stores nationwide.
Growing awareness of ecolabel campaign
More than half of seafood consumers in the UK now recognise the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) blue ecolabel campaign.
Vote for your 2024 seafood product of the year
Dreaming of the scent of sizzling sardines lifting up off a white-hot barbeque into the still air of a hot summer’s evening? Then dream no more seafood-loving chums, Cornish sardine season is underway!
Name that tuna: learn more about tuna
The 2024 Sustainable Tuna Yearbook reveals that consumers in the UK spent £408.5m on more than 61 tonnes of tuna products between June 2022 and 2023. With these vast figures in mind, Fish Face Seafood Blog decided it was time to take a closer look at the types of tuna available on the UK market.