Eat ugly fish scheme launched in Sussex

The UK’s first ever community seafood scheme is to be launched on March 27.

Catchbox, which promises to introduce local people to ugly fish, is to run in Brighton and Hove and Chichester.

The aim of the scheme is to protect both the local seas and fishermen’s livelihoods while ensuring that there is no shortage of delicious local seafood.

Members join up and pay at the beginning of the fishing season for a share of the weekly catch.

They then receive a set weight of fish each week similar to a vegetable box scheme.

This will include the not so well known of “ugly” fish along with recipe cards for tasty meals.

Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has thrown his support behind the scheme, describing it as “bringing communities together around a topic close to my heart – delicious, local and responsibly-sourced seafood.”

For more information and to join up visit www.catchbox.coop.

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Comments(4)

brighton-breezy says...
7:50pm Wed 20 Mar 13

what a fantastic idea

mustaphaLeeko says...
9:58pm Wed 20 Mar 13

I thought it was a dating scheme for a minute, I've been introduced to plenty of ugly fish in Brighton.

chilliman says...
7:46am Thu 21 Mar 13

I seem to remember this was done years ago but didn't keep going for some reason, maybe because a lot of the small fishing fleets, and beach based boats, disappeared. Fifty odd years ago in Worthing there were lots of fishermen who sold from the beach, and you bought what they had caught without worrying too much what it was so long as it wasn't actually poisonous.

Once the fish are prepared and cooked most people wouldn't know what type of fish they were eating, if they even recognised that it wasn't their usual cod, haddock or plaice. Coley used to be only considered fit for the cat.

billy goat-gruff says...
11:23am Thu 21 Mar 13

What's an ugly fish? Gurnard? Monkfish? It'd be great to be able to buy the kind of fish people turn their noses up at: whiting, dabs, huss etc

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