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View fullsize Hurrah for the first #QuayConnections trip of the year and an absolutely fabulous day on the Suffolk Heritage Coast with chefs and FOH from @chilternfirehouse including oyster legend @bobbysoysters 🦪🦪🦪 We explored Aldeburgh beach and learned abou
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View fullsize Seafood Matters - it really does, and increasingly so with food security in the spotlight, but how many people who consume it really understand what it takes to bring the catch from ‘net to plate’ Join me and industry legend Jim Cowie a
View fullsize Calling all Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex fishermen! A huge opportunity has arisen to join us March 3rd-6th, at our first ever East Anglian F-REP (Fisheries Resource Education Programme) at Dunston Hall nr Norwich. Three days of in depth discussions
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View fullsize Bottom-trawling - a phrase which has been evoking controversy for a considerable while now in the mainstream media. With spectacularly filmed narratives such as Ocean and Seaspiracy leading the way in demonising the practice, as consumers, we need to
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View fullsize Wonderful weather in Newlyn for our Quay Connections port experience, organised for @0rca_oceans_renewed visiting elements of the Cornish fishing industry for a group of their supporters 🐟 Huge thanks to @cornwallfishdirectltd @wharveyandsons @c
View fullsize It’s that time of year when the silver shoals will soon appear here off the East Anglian coast 🐟 So abundant were the herring back in the early 1900’s that some 1500 ‘drifters’ worked the eastern grounds from Shetland to the
View fullsize What an incredible two days @aldeburghfood under some simply stunning Suffolk skies. The weather gods smiled on us and the whole weekend passed in a huge foodie frenzy with thousands of people enjoying our 20th Festival 😎 On the Seafood Stage, we
View fullsize I’m delighted and honoured to have a recipe included in the new @thefishmish 2026 calendar 😊 Its beautiful design, with intricate and atmospheric lino cuts, depicting different seafood species and evocative harbour scenes have been masterfull
View fullsize Delighted to feature in a super article in this week’s @nytimes @tmagazine by @aimee_farrell about @jessieshad and the incredible beach lunch she hosted earlier in the summer on Aldeburgh Beach ☀️ Local fisherman Dean Fryer and his morning&rsq
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View fullsize Here’s few more pics from our brilliant lobster workshop on Aldeburgh beach yesterday, for a private birthday weekend event organised by @withhonorevents 🎉 It was scheduled to be a crab picking masterclass, but unfortunately due to this year&
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View fullsize It’s been 30 years since @chefrickstein ‘Taste of the Sea’ graced our screens. An absolute milestone in familiarising the UK consumer with the joys and realities of native British seafood. An inspiration for so many of us, I&rsq
View fullsize This week we’re talking crab 🦀 I don’t know about you, but for me, nothing beats a really well-constructed, freshly-picked crab sandwich. Yes, I know lobster rolls are the thing and I love them as well (@thegentlemanfarmerinmaine 😉🦞
View fullsize Last one (promise) from the shrimp foraging foray at Walberswick yesterday evening 🦐 Hopefully, I’ll be resurrecting the ‘Shrimping Safaris’ in the autumn - weather and tide permitting. DM if you’re interested? Obviously w

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