Fish Glossary

Fish and Seafood Seasonality

Our guide to fish seasonality and availability explains what fish is in season right now, and the best choice for each month. This will be helpful when you need to choose your fish across the different seasons throughout the year and acts as guidance for your menu planning.

Many factors can affect the seasonality of fish, and our local markets will only supply the fish that is in season.

Our knowledgeable team is on hand whenever you need some advice on seasonality and availability, so please feel free to contact us to discuss daily landings and any questions you may have.

Fish Glossary

A Guide to What Fish Are in Season

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Anchovies

Anchovies are small, round, pelagic, oily fish, with a strong taste.

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Black Bream

Black bream is a medium-sized, deep-bodied marine fish in the seabream/porgy family Sparidae.

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Brill

Flatfish with firm, fine-textured flesh; similar to turbot but subtler flavor, prized in gourmet kitchens for pan-frying or steaming.

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Brown Crab UK

Brown crab is a robust reddish-brown crustacean found around all UK shores, characterized by an oval shell with a distinctive “pie crust” crimped edge and black-tipped claws.

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Season starts In June
Canadian Lobster

Canadian lobster (Homarus americanus), also called American lobster, is a large marine crustacean with powerful claws found from Labrador to North Carolina.

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ChalkStream® Trout

ChalkStream® Trout is a premium British farmed rainbow trout raised in the famous chalk streams of Hampshire, England, particularly the Test and Itchen rivers.

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Clams – Palourde

Palourde clams are highly prized bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, considered one of the finest varieties of clams.

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Cobia

Cobia is a large, fast-growing marine fish (Rachycentron canadum) found in warm-temperate to tropical seas worldwide.

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Cockles

Cockles are edible marine bivalve mollusks with distinctive ribbed, heart-shaped shells that live in sandy coastal areas and filter feed on plankton.

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Season ends In April
Cod

Popular white fish, flaky and mild-tasting; cornerstone of fish and chips, versatile for baking, poaching, or soups.

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Coley

Coley are round fish, caught in the North East Atlantic by demersal trawlers. It is possible to achieve a yield of 55% from a whole Coley fish (with head on).

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Season ends In February
Cuttlefish

Cephalopod with tender meat when cooked gently; ink prized in Mediterranean cuisine for risottos, pastas, and sauces.

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Dabs

Dabs are small right-eyed flatfish found in the North Atlantic, characterized by a distinctive semi-circular curved lateral line, rough scales, and brown coloration with darker spots.

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Exotic Red Mullet (Goatfish)

Goatfish are tropical and subtropical marine fish belonging to the family Mullidae, with at least 65 species across six genera found worldwide in warm waters. They are named for their distinctive pair of chin whiskers resembling a goatee.

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Flounder

Flounder are flatfish with both eyes migrating to one side of their body as they mature, typically reaching 22-60 cm in length.

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Gilthead Bream

Gilthead bream is a warm-temperate marine fish in the Sparidae family, prized both by anglers and in Mediterranean cuisine.

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Gurnard – Red/Tub/Grey

Gurnard is a distinctive bottom-dwelling marine fish belonging to the Triglidae family.

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Haddock

Haddock is a popular North Atlantic groundfish and a member of the cod family, highly valued for its delicate white flesh and widespread use in fish and chips.

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Hake

Hake is a demersal (bottom-dwelling) fish belonging to the cod family, found in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, known for its elongated body, mild flavor, and softer texture than cod. Multiple species exist including European hake, silver hake, and white hake.

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Halibut

Halibut are the world’s largest flatfish species (Pacific and Atlantic), growing over 8 feet long and 500 pounds, with both eyes migrating to the right side of their diamond-shaped bodies as they mature.

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Herrings

Herrings are pelagic, round fish caught via purse seine fishing.

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John Dory

John Dory (Zeus faber), also called St. Pierre or Peter’s fish, is a distinctive demersal coastal fish known for its extremely compressed, disc-shaped body and the large dark spot on each side. It is found across tropical and temperate oceans worldwide, excluding the eastern Pacific and western Atlantic.

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Langoustines

Brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) are small, mottled brown coastal shrimps up to about 8 cm long that live buried in sandy or muddy shallows, especially estuaries, emerging mainly at night to feed on a wide range of animal and plant material.

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Ling

Ling is the longest member of the cod family, reaching up to 2 meters in length and 30 kg in weight. It is a deep-water predator found in the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Season starts In April
Mackerel

Mackerel refers to a family of fast-swimming, streamlined fish in the family Scombridae, which also includes tuna and bonito. The most common species is Atlantic mackerel, found in temperate and tropical seas worldwide.

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Mahi Mahi

Mahi-mahi is a vibrantly colored surface-dwelling fish found in tropical, subtropical, and temperate waters worldwide. Despite its “dolphin fish” name, it is not related to marine mammals.

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Meagre

Meagre is a large silvery sport fish belonging to the Sciaenidae family, found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Black Sea.

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Megrim Sole

Megrim sole is a left-eyed flatfish with a narrow body, large head and mouth, light brown coloring with dark spots, growing up to 60 cm.

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Monkfish

Monkfish (Lophius species) are bottom-dwelling anglerfish with broad, flattened heads.

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Season ends In March
Mussels

Mussels are bivalve mollusks that attach to rocks, sediments, and various substrates using fibrous byssus threads, inhabiting intertidal and shallow subtidal zones in both marine and freshwater environments worldwide.

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Season starts In June
Native Lobster

Native lobster (Homarus gammarus), also called European or common lobster, is a blue clawed crustacean found in UK.

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Season ends In February
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Norwegian Fjord Trout

Norwegian Fjord Trout is a premium farmed fish raised in the cold, clear fjords of Norway where glacial meltwater meets saltwater.

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Octopus

Octopus are pot caught or demersal trawled. There are various Octopus fisheries across the North East Atlantic, with the most important being off the coast of Spain and Portugal, where the larger Octopus are caught. Octopus is caught all year round, the UK has a few fisheries and what is caught is smaller, normally less than 1kg in size.

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Plaice

Plaice are right-eyed flatfish with distinctive orange or red spots on smooth brown skin and 4-7 bony knobs between their eyes.

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Pollock

Pollock refers to several species of fish in the cod family. These are commercially important food fish found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans

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Pouting

Pouting is a small member of the cod family found in European waters. It is distinguished by its deep body, coppery color with vertical banding, and a long chin barbel.

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Razor Clam

Sweet, briny shellfish; eaten raw, steamed, or in chowders; adds rich depth to pasta sauces and broths.

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Rock Oysters

Rock oysters are marine bivalve mollusks that cement themselves to hard surfaces in coastal waters, forming reef structures while filter-feeding on plankton.

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Salmon

Salmon are iconic anadromous fish belonging to the Salmonidae family, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and their tributary rivers. They hatch in freshwater, migrate to the ocean to mature, then return to their natal streams to spawn.

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Sardines

Sardines are small, silvery, pelagic fish belonging to the herring family Clupeidae, found in temperate and subtropical oceans worldwide.

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Season starts In May
Sea Bass

Sea bass is one of the most popular round fish available. Most sea bass is now farmed and comes from…

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Season ends In April
Skrei Cod

Skrei is a special seasonal form of Norwegian Arctic cod, not a separate species, celebrated for its migration, firm texture, and exceptional eating quality.

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Season starts In –
Spider Crab

Spider crab is a spiny, triangular-shaped crustacean with long legs up to 2 meters in some species, found in rocky or sandy areas at 20-70 meters depth, known for undertaking spectacular mass migrations to deeper waters for mating and molting.

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Turbot

Turbot is a large left-eyed flatfish with a distinctive round, asymmetric body covered in bony tubercles instead of scales, inhabiting sandy and muddy bottoms in the Northeast Atlantic.

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