Although an island nation, the British have never had a great reputation for cooking and enjoying seafood — unless it’s fish and chips. Yet, we’re surrounded by a bountiful sea and wonderful variety of delicious species.
The sad fact is that, as a nation, we are fixated on The Big Five: cod, haddock, salmon, prawns and canned tuna. As a result, we have to import about 80 per cent of the fish we consume — mostly cod, haddock and salmon from Norway, Iceland and the Faroes. And, to add insult to injury, we are reluctant to eat our British-landed species, such as megrim, gurnard, crab, langoustines, monkfish and many others, which Spain, Italy, France and other countries are keen to buy.
Our fishermen are having a hard time of it,…
