Good Catch (UK)

Our seafood sustainability work with the foodservice and culinary sector in the UK is delivered under the Good Catch banner.

Good Catch is a collaborative project that brings together the work of the Marine Conservation Society, the Marine Stewardship Council, SeaWeb’s Seafood Choices, and Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.

Good Catch directs catering professionals to a range of user-friendly materials and activities designed to help restaurants and related businesses improve the sustainability of seafood they buy, serve and promote.

www.goodcatch.org.uk

Chefs, Catering and Wholesale

Seafood Choices is working with chefs, restaurateurs and fishmongers to help them navigate the subject of seafood sustainability. We deliver practical information tools and events that cut through the complexity of seafood issues, making it easier for caterers and wholesalers to improve seafood sustainability in their businesses and supply chains. By highlighting examples of leadership and best practice, we also seek to catalyze a wider advancement of seafood sustainability and culture of ocean conservation amongst the culinary community.

• Solutions-focused Events
• Practical Tools and Resources
• Promoting Best Practice

Solutions-focused Events

Seafood Choices organizes workshops, trips and seminars to help the catering and wholesale sectors to better understand marine issues and build good practice into their businesses. Run for both professionals and students, the events help attendees realize and fulfill their key role in influencing both the supply chain and consumers.

These events often include practical sessions such as tastings and kitchen demos, and encourage discussions between different stakeholders in the seafood industry (e.g. students, chefs, fishmongers, wholesalers, retailers and fishermen). The trips are an opportunity to directly connect with fishermen and fish farmers and be informed and inspired about sustainable production techniques.

Learn more about our events:

International

• Seafood Summit
  The Seafood Summit brings together global representatives from the seafood industry and conservation community for in-depth discussions, presentations and networking with the goal of making the seafood marketplace environmentally, socially and economically sustainable.

France

• Seafood Choices organizes workshops and seminars in order to raise the awareness and inform students from catering schools and fishmonger apprentices, on the current status of marine resources, through presentations and discussions between different stakeholders in the seafood industry – chefs, fishmongers, wholesalers, retailers and fishermen - and the participants. Those workshops aim at initiating a dialogue between students and professionals and at trying to help the students realize the key role they can and will play in influencing both the supply chain and consumers.
  Learn more about workshops organized in catering and fishmongers schools.

United Kingdom

• Good Catch Workshops and Field Trips
  Workshops include practical sessions such as tastings and kitchen demos to help attendees understand the issues of seafood sustainability and build good practice into their businesses. Field trips are an opportunity to directly connect with fishermen and fish farmers, as well as fellow chefs, and be informed and inspired about sustainable fishing and farming techniques used in UK waters.
  Learn more about Good Catch events here.

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Practical Tools and Resources

Seafood Choices creates clear communication resources for caterers and wholesalers to help them understand fisheries and aquaculture issues and forge a path towards improving the sustainability of their own seafood choices.

Resources available include:

Europe – French speaking

• Guide des espèces - collates the information seafood buyers need for responsible procurement, including environmental and scientific information on over 60 fish species.
  Download or order the Guide des espèces here.

United Kingdom

• Website - www.goodcatch.org.uk is designed to be the first port-of-call for culinary professionals improving seafood sustainability. The easy-to-access website gives practical information and directs readers on to other in-depth resources and organisations.
  
• Good Catch...the essentials - core information on seafood sustainability issues and key steps to take on the journey to improvement (published 2010). Download this publication now.
• The Good Catch Manual - a rough guide to seafood sustainability for chefs, restaurateurs and caterers – including species advice from the Marine Conservation Society (published 2008)
• Fish Flash - periodic e-bulletin from Good Catch that keeps the UK culinary sector up-to-date on sustainable seafood news, events, advice and progress. Sign up here.
  

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Promoting best practice

By highlighting examples of leadership and best practice, Seafood Choices seeks to catalyze further advancement of seafood sustainability and a culture of ocean conservation amongst the broad international culinary community.

• Global culinary leadership on seafood sustainability

Worldwide many chefs, caterers and restaurateurs are not only improving their own seafood sourcing but are also advancing seafood sustainability by using their influence (e.g. through media, campaigns, chef associations, public pledges and grass-roots projects) to create wider progress.

Click here to learn more about some of these ambassadors and innovations, including:
- the commitment initiated by the Relais & Châteaux association
- interviews from chefs and caterers leading the way on responsible fish

• The Good Catch Award – sustainability leaders in the UK Fish and Chip sector

The Good Catch Award recognizes fish and chip shops that have shown initiative in improving the environmentally responsible practices of their business and the seafood that they buy, serve and promote.

Learn more about the Good Catch Award here.

• Seafood Champions Awards

Through these international awards, Seafood Choices annually recognize individuals and companies for outstanding leadership in promoting environmentally responsible seafood. Previous winners include Champions from the catering and wholesale community – restaurateurs, chefs, contract caterers and airlines (in-flight meals!).

Learn more about past Seafood Champions, and how to nominate.

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