Paul Eccleston Oct 31st 2009
By Chris Daphne
The European eel (Anguilla Anguilla) is a complex and often misunderstood species.
It starts life in the Sargasso Sea where it drifts on oceanic currents before reaching European shores up to 4 years later.
From here, as elvers, they migrate into our river systems where they can spend up to 50 years, feeding and growing [...]
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Paul Eccleston Oct 29th 2009
Charles Clover, the editor of the new online seafood restaurant guide www.fish2fork.com has been given a top media award.
He was among some of the country’s outstanding journalists recognised at the annual Maritime Media Awards.
Mr. Clover received the first Maritime Fellowship Award from HRH The Princess Royal for his book and film, The End of the [...]
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Charles Clover Oct 29th 2009
The population of Atlantic bluefin tuna has crashed so low that an immediate ban on international trade in the species is justified, according to fishery scientists.
A report from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) said that spawning stocks of bluefin have fallen below 15 per cent of what they were historically [...]
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Charles Clover Oct 23rd 2009
Two of London’s best known fish restaurants have moved out of the red and into the blue in our ratings.
J Sheekey and Scott’s, part of the Caprice Holdings stable, improved their sustainability scores after releasing more information to us about how their seafood is sourced.
Covent Garden restaurant J Sheekey fared best moving from a poor five [...]
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Paul Eccleston Oct 22nd 2009
One of Britain’s most prestigious restaurants – Le Manoir au Quat’ Saisons – has soared to top place in the www.fish2fork.com ratings.
The two Michelin star restaurant decided to go public about its sustainability policies only a few days after the launch of www.fish2fork.com
It posted a full statement on its website about its fish purchasing policy [...]
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Paul Eccleston Oct 20th 2009
The UK’s first online seafood restaurant guide www.fish2fork.com launched this week with the backing of some VIP supporters.
Sarah Brown, the Prime Minister’s wife, said on Twitter: “ The End of the Line, the brilliant, watchable film on fish is on More4 at 10.00pm tonight and sustainable fish restaurant guide www.fish2fork.com”.
There was a similar message from [...]
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Charles Clover Oct 16th 2009
A quarter of the country’s most critically-acclaimed restaurants are serving fish as endangered as the giant panda, according to the first survey by a new web-based guide.
The survey of restaurants in Britain to look at whether they are serving fish caught from healthy populations also found that nearly 9 out of 10 were serving at [...]
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Fish2Fork Oct 16th 2009
Michel Roux jnr, one of the most illustrious names in the restaurant industry, decided against filling in our questionnaire.
“ I think the questionnaire is loaded against the restaurateur and unfair,” he said.
M.Roux, scion of the French family who helped introduce haute cuisine to Britain, said he supported the aims of fish2fork.com but couldn’t agree with [...]
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