20.07.06
Cornish fishing and seafood
Cornish fishing is thriving, and so are fish stocks in the
seas around the Cornish coast. If you don’t believe
this then look no further than a radical new book on fishing
in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly that turns many preconceptions
on their head. Cornish Fishing and Seafood reveals the true
state of fishing and fish stocks in the far South West and
discovers the thriving onshore industry that processes and
handles the fish and shellfish landed by England’s last
fishing fleet of any size.
Cornish Fishing and Seafood, by award-winning food writer
Carol Trewin and renowned photographer Adam Woolfitt, celebrates
seafood and sea fishing in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
and reveals why our only truly wild source of food, harvested
by the last of the hunter-gatherers, is special, to be treated
with respect. It takes the lid off the myths and misunderstandings
surrounding sea fishing, to discover the real state of fishing
in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
Using the words and experiences of fishermen, auctioneers,
processors and fish merchants, and with specially commissioned
photographs taken over the last year, this book debunks any
idea that fishermen are wilfully destroying the very thing
that provides them with a living, showing instead the initiatives
they have taken to protect stocks for the future.
While celebrating the positive aspects of Cornish fishing,
Cornish Fishing and Seafood does not shy away from recent
difficulties – decommissioning, cuts in fish quotas,
and shortages of manpower. It also looks forwards, and outlines
the steps being taken to keep Cornish boats fishing profitably
in the twenty-first century.
“When Adam and I set off to work together on our
previous book, Gourmet Cornwall, we discovered that the state
of fishing in Cornwall was far from what we had been led to
expect by the negative coverage in the media,” said
Carol Trewin. “So we were determined to set the
record straight and tell the real story of Cornish fishing
and seafood, but being realistic about the problems as well
as the positive aspects.”
Described by Gordon Ramsay as telling ‘the true story
of Cornish fishing, and why we must love and cherish it’,
this book also uses verbatim interviews allowing fishermen,
merchants, chefs and others directly linked to the industry
to tell their stories in their own words. The book is completed
with more than 20 recipes for some of the 50 species of fish
and shellfish landed in Cornwall. The recipes come from top
Cornish chefs, restaurateurs and fishermen, including Rick
Stein, Ben Tunnicliffe and The Bay Restaurant in Penzance.
Cornish Fishing and Seafood has been written with support
from Cornish fishing businesses, at sea and onshore, so that
profits from sales can help the Duchy Fish Quota Company to
keep Cornish fishing quota in Cornwall.
For further information please contact Alison Hodge on 01736
368093 or email: info@alison-hodge.co.uk.
The Duchy Fish Quota Company is supported by South
West Pesca and Seafood Cornwall through the Financial Instrument
for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG).
Editor's notes:
Review copies will be sent out on request and when available
in September.
The Duchy Fish Quota Company was set up in 2001 to raise funds
that would be used to protect the future of Cornish fishing
by buying fishing quota. The quota is then leased to young
fishermen starting out in the industry. The profits are reinvested
by buying more fishing quota.
Carol Trewin and Adam Woolfitt’s previous book, Gourmet
Cornwall, won The Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Local
Cookbook published in the UK in 2005. Gourmet Cornwall was
also shortlisted for the 2006 Guild of Food Writers awards.
Rick Stein runs the Seafood Restaurant in Padstow, www.rickstein.com;
Ben Tunnicliffe won his first Michelin star just one year
after moving to the Abbey Restaurant in Penzance, which he
and his wife Kinga now own and run, www.theabbeyonline.com;
the Bay Restaurant and Gallery are run by Stephen and Yvonne
Hill in Penzance, www.bay-penzance.co.uk.
If you require any further information, see www.alison-hodge.co.uk,
or call Alison Hodge, 01736 368093, Carol Trewin, 01822 859449
, or for the Duchy Fish Quota Company see www.duchyfishquota.co.uk.
Cornish Fishing and Seafood, by Carol Trewin with a foreword
by Colin Warwick, Chairman of the Duchy Fish Quota Company,
and photographs by Adam Woolfitt, www.adampix.com,
ISBN: 0906720427, price £14.95, published 28 September
2006 by Alison Hodge, www.alison-hodge.co.uk.
Paperback with flaps; 256 pages; 235 photographs; full colour
throughout.
Cornish Fishing and Seafood will be available in bookshops,
or may be ordered direct from the Duchy Fish Quota Company,
www.duchyfishquota.co.uk,
or from the publishers, www.alison-hodge.co.uk.
For Duchy Fish Quota Company enquiries contact Nicky Harrison
at SW Pesca, 01872 270333.
Clare Morgan
Media Relations Manager
Objective One Partnership Office
Castle House
Pydar Street
Truro TR1 2UD
Mobile: 07973 813647
Telephone: 01872 223439
cmorgan@cornwall.gov.uk
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