Recent NHS guidelines state that to improve your health, fish should be included in your diet at least twice a week.
This may seem obvious but many people are still not confident enough to buy, prepare and cook fish or shellfish despite the increasing number of fish and shellfish related cooking programmes on the TV, the growing number of fish cookery books and web blogs dedicated to fish and shellfish and the fact that within the M25 every other new restaurant opening is a Fish Restaurant.
These facts prove that as a nation we are now catching up with the rest of the world in our appreciation, consumption and understanding of all things seafood. That said, I really do not want to forget about the fantastic variety of freshwater fish and shellfish that will definitely be available at Wheeler’s including Chalk stream trout and farmed Talapia.
Let’s get a few things straight;
Although we all love to eat the freshest wildest fish we can buy or catch of course we need to be eating farmed fish as well, There it’s in the open, I’ve said it and I mean it too.
There are a fantastic array of very responsibly farmed fish available nowadays including Icelandic Halibut, Mediterranean Bass and Bream, Scottish Salmon to name a few. All in tip top condition with certificates of provenance. Farmed Scottish Mussels and Kentish Oysters are also very popular and fantastic eating.
So many people just want Wild fish and If it wasn’t for the decades of overfishing, a complete disregard for our fishermen and women on a national level, a complete disregard for the survival of so many of the fish species swimming around our coastline I might be inclined to agree.
Please do visit the Marine Conservation Society’s website for advice too on what’s good and what should be avoided if you cannot visit us or want to investigate further, they’re a great body of people and they’ve got all of our best interests at heart.
However, there are many very responsible fish farms around our coastline. In Lochs and sea Lochs in Scotland and I will say without any reservations that we will sell the most responsibly farmed fish as well as a great variety of Wild fish too, straight off the boat.
We at Wheeler’s do hold the licence to buy ‘first fish’ this means we can buy straight off the boat. There’s really no fresher or seasonal fish anywhere. Please do come and find us.
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