The Creel Fish Club is a fish box scheme where you can access quality, fresh, locally sourced, seasonal fish and seafood on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly basis.
The idea behind Creel Fish Club is to try and take the strain off overfished stocks, introduce customers to new types of fish and seafood and help support our inshore fishing fleet. By subscribing to Creel Fish Club you can be assured your fish will be spanking fresh, seasonal, sustainable, local and delicious.
The need to catch and consume fish in a more sustainable way has risen dramatically in the public eye and on government policy agendas in recent years. Fisheries in the UK provide a vital source of employment and economic development as well as a historical way of life for coastal communities, especially here in Amble.
As a nation, us Brits are a pretty unadventurous bunch when it comes to seafood. Over 75% of all the seafood we eat comes from the big five: salmon, cod, haddock, tuna and prawns. We don’t catch enough of these in the UK so we end up importing the majority of it. As a result, these stocks have been massively overfished on a global scale and resulted in the discarding of a number of other species, which are of good quality, yet currently lack a stable and viable market. These ‘under-utilised’ species currently represent about 17% of the total English catch. If we want to help solve the problem we need to diversify the different types of fish we eat.