Cornish fishermen land top Seafood Awards

Cornish fishermen land top Awards Cornwall’s Fishing Industry is celebrating after scooping two awards at the recent Seafood Awards held in London’s Mariott Hotel last week (22nd March). Skipper Stefan Glinski was first up to collect the ‘Catching for the Market’ award for his innovative approach to the Cornish Sardine fishery involving his Newlyn-based vessel ‘Pride of Cornwall’, and processing facility, Fresh-n-Freeze Ltd. However, the Cornish celebrations were not to end there as a group of Cornish fishermen representing the SW Handline Fishermen’s Assoc. and Seafood Cornwall then collected the hotly contested ‘Sustainable Futures’ Award for the line caught Bass and Pollack tagging scheme. “It was great to see some of Cornwall’s proactive and positive fishermen being recognised for the hard work they have been putting into developing both the Cornish Sardine fishery and the Bass tagging scheme” said Paul Trebilcock, Chief Executive of the Cornish Fish Producers Organisation. Pic attached shows L-R Fred McAuley (comedian and host), Quentin Knights (Newlyn skipper), Nathan de Rozarieux (Seafood Cornwall), Andrew Pascoe (Newlyn skipper and vice-chair SWHFA), David Muirhead (Secretary of SWHFA) and Andrew Dewar-Durie, (Chairman of Seafish).
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