Hugh’s Fish Fight friendly mackerel bap

January 19, 2011

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s mackerel mission … the MakBap

As part of his Fish Fight, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is encouraging us to eat a more diverse range of fish, and there’s one cheap, sustainable, nutritious and extremely tasty species right at the front of the pack. Mackerel. Criminally under-valued, mackerel is nothing short of a show-stopper. Packed with all the right types of fish oil [...]

Food & drink, Food politics

fish, Fish and chips, fish fight, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, mackerel

Why are perfectly good fish thrown back into the sea, dead?

January 14, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/v/L2fZcmjbqpA?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0 There’s something wrong with fishing in Europe. The thing is, over half of the fish caught in the North Sea end up being thrown back overboard, dead, the victim of a set of insane regulations intended to protect European fishery stocks, but which instead serve to decimate them. The basic thrust is that fishermen [...]

Food politics

fish, fish fight, fishing, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall