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.
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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.
2024 Cornish sardine season underway
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!
What are skate wings? A beginner’s guide
“What is skate?” Asked the young girl standing in the queue in front of me at our local fish and chips shop. “It’s a type of flatfish,” replied her dad. Evidently, there’s a need for a beginner’s guide to skate – and here it is!
Why isn’t flounder more popular?
Walk into any restaurant, grab the menu and check out the price of any flatfish. Megrim sole, sand sole and plaice will be over £20, with lemon sole and Dover sole considerably more – and that’s not to mention brill and turbot. But where is the humble flounder?
Weever woe on the south coast: in search of the perfect bouillabaisse
A tale of weever woe not centred around a fiery foot, but rather a bland bouillabaisse.