food & drink Left to Right:


Graham, with Turbot. Johnathan, with Scottish Salmon and John, with Bembridge Crab


A Plaice worth knowing


With 67 miles of coastline, our Island offers some of the finest and freshest seafood in the south. Wild bass, Dover sole, crab, lobster and prawns are just some of the varieties which can be hooked.


OTHER favourites include huss, pollack, conger, mackerel, pouting, flatfish, wrasse and river cobbler. Te odd black bream, skate and even shark are occasionally caught. Purchased and cooked just a few hours after being landed by local fishermen, you can really taste the difference. According


to Seafish, there are


30,000 species of fish and shellfish in the world and around 100 different varieties available in the UK. Yet shoppers in Britain have a far


more conservative attitude towards seafood than most other nations in Europe. Just five species - tuna, salmon, cod,


haddock and prawn - account for about 80 per cent of the fish sold by


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major supermarkets. But whatever you have with your chips, we are all becoming more aware of where our fish supper comes from. Tis is partly thanks to a band of celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver and Heston Blumenthal. Tey have joined forces to champion sustainable


seafood and celebrate


lesser known delicacies of the deep. Fishmonger Johnathan Pulman - who owns Hancock’s in Newport – admits customers are much more switched on about fish nowadays. He says: “All these TV shows and telly chefs have certainly sparked a resurgence in fish. “Before customers would come in and pick up their weekly four fillets


by Alan Carson


of cod or haddock and maybe a piece of salmon. “Now they are keen to ask questions and want to know exactly how their fish has arrived in the shop. “Tey are so much more clued up and will ask when, where and how the fish was caught. We have to be ready with those answers. “Sustainable is the watch word on everyone’s lips at the moment. “But it can only be a good thing if television is helping making the public more aware of what they might be missing out on.” One of the most shocking statistics is the estimate that half of all fish caught in the North Sea are thrown back overboard. Te EU believes that in these fishing grounds alone,


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