March 5, 2013 — The organisers of Crabstock, the fish and live music festival, have promised to use the two day event to reassure the British public about the sustainable nature of the country’s shellfish industry.
Matt Ayres, professional chef and one of the festival’s founders, says: “Fish and seafood have received a lot of public and media attention this year in the wake of some recent documentaries. Unfortunately, a lot of the allegations that have been made about the shellfish industry, and in particular scallop fishing, are untrue; they have been sensationalised for television. British consumers need to be made aware of the facts and we will be doing our utmost during Crabstock to get the correct messages across to them.”
Crabstock recognises that one of the most common fallacies associated with scallop fishing is that it destroys vast areas of precious seabed areas. In actual fact, say event organisers, the British scallop boats have focused on the same modest number of relatively small fishing areas for many decades. These scallop beds are more affected by the tides and the motion of the sea than the vessels fishing them.
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