Now that’s FRESH sushi! Japanese firm designs portable fish tanks for seafood lovers to take their dinner home alive A new device named the ‘Katsugyo bag’ is being developed by inventors in Japan The design features a transparent tube and temperature gauge to carry fish It is designed to show off extravagantly expensive seafood bought at … Read more
Morrisons becomes first British supermarket with its own trawler as it buys Cornish seafood firm while rivals strip out fresh fish counters Morrisons has purchased Cornish-based seafood firm Falfish for undisclosed fee Long-term supplier Falfish will provide retailer with 80% of its fish and shellfish The Bradford-based supermarket will also own Falfish’s 30ft trawler, the Jacqui … Read more
There’s a bitter north-easterly wind whipping the waves as Chris Ranger moors his ageing sailboat and steps off with a small net of oysters. ‘This time last year, I’d be selling 1,500 of these for Valentine’s Day,’ he says. ‘But Covid has closed the UK market and Brexit has ended EU exports. I’m down to a … Read more
More than 20 shellfish trucks were parked on roads near 10 Downing Street and the Houses of Parliament today to protest against post-Brexit bureaucracy that has stopped them exporting to the European Union. Trucks with slogans such as ‘Brexit carnage’ and ‘incompetent government destroying shellfish industry’ were parked just yards away from Prime Minister Boris … Read more
Furious fishermen threaten to dump rotting seafood in Downing Street unless Boris Johnson sorts out delays to exports since Brexit UK seafood exporters have faced a ‘perfect storm’ of problems since January 1 IT problems, bureaucracy and confusion have all played a part in trade hold-ups Reports made about shellfish rotting in ports meaning they … Read more
Fear over health risks of plastic in seafood grows as new tests show we could be eating thousands of fragments a year… with scallops, mussels and oysters among most polluted Study reveals oysters, mussels and scallops are among the most polluted items Mussels were found to contain an average of 0.7 tiny pieces of plastic … Read more
Millions of pounds of Scottish seafood is stuck in the queues for Dover as firms warn Christmas sales have been ‘ruined’ by chaos France’s travel ban on arrivals from the UK on Sunday sparked huge disruption Hundreds of lorries have been backed up in Kent over the last 48 hours A deal was finally struck … Read more
High flyer! Queen’s cousin Lady Tatiana Mountbatten sips on cocktails at clifftop bars and dines out on seafood as she shares a glimpse into glamorous trip to Corfu Queen’s second cousin Lady Tatiana Mountbatten, 29, revealed trip to Corfu Shared a series of Instagram snaps of her glamorous expedition to the country Royal sipped on … Read more
High flyer! Queen’s second cousin Lady Tatiana Mountbatten sips on cocktails at clifftop bars and dines out on seafood as she shares a glimpse into glamorous trip to Corfu Queen’s second cousin Lady Tatiana Mountbatten, 29, revealed trip to Corfu Shared a series of Instagram snaps of her glamorous expedition to the country Royal sipped … Read more
Plastic pollution in our oceans could spread fatal diseases into the food chain through farmed seafoods such as mussels and oysters, scientists warn. Microplastics – plastic particles less than 5 millimetres in diameter – can come from larger plastic products that have broken down, textile fibres, cigarette filters or even beauty products. Microplastics that enter … Read more