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The Ethical Seafood Company on the Isle of Mull turned to home delivery of items like mussels and oysters during lockdowns and supplied top restaurants with hand dived scallops.
The company has said health and safety legislation makes it very difficult for the industry to compete with dredging boats.
Monday 17 May 2021 A few years ago, as I sat overlooking the harbour in Sydney – I was living there and working at Time Out – an Italian chef, upon clocking my Glaswegian accent, looked at me and said, ‘Scotland? Great produce! But you don’t know what to do with it.’ This, I realised, feeling suddenly pale in the Australian sun, is the global reputation of Scottish cooking. Sure, our produce is world-renowned – salmon, shellfish, whisky – but there is little faith that we, as Scots, know what to do with our own bounty. Ethical Shellfish Company boat It is, of course, nonsense. ...
A squeeze of lemon on Bentley's lobster Fish stocks are not the only thing in the waters of the British Isles facing a sustainability crisis. The ban on live shellfish exports to the European Union threatens to devastate the UK fishing industry. The EU rules specifically apply to live bivalve molluscs such as mussels, oysters, scallops, cockles and clams. The industry is worth around £12m a year, which might be small fry to the UK economy as a whole but is of critical value to the communities who rely on the sea for their livelihoods. Fish exports overall have been hit hard by Brexit. De...