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The End of the Great British Fish Dish

Submitted by nhm on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 19:43

With speakers from industry, science and government and a packed audience, the End of the Great British Fish Dish event seemed to go down very well.

Our audience discovered how fish stock size is estimated, what problems there are with current regulation of catch quotas, and what they should think about if they want to eat sustainable seafood.

The audience asked questions, discussed with speakers, saw specimens from behind the scenes at the Museum, voted on issues and did a taste test on some alternatives to the most popular fish.

Tim Ferrero, NHM scientist, discussing the 4SEAS project
Dr Kenneth Patterson, Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries from the European Commission
Zoe Hodgson, DEFRA
Prof. Geoff Boxshall, NHM scientist, discussing aquaculture
Oliver Crimmen, NHM, explained how Museum collections can be used to show how fish populations have changed over time
Museum curator James Maclaine show a visitor some of our fish specimens
Asking questions to the speakers
Tom Pickerell adivising which ecolable to use when looking for sustainable fish
Audience members voted on which fish in the taste test they liked the best
Five different alternative fish were put forward for the audience to judge
The audience voted on different questions posed by Zoe Hodgson from DEFRA