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.
Black bream is a medium-sized, deep-bodied marine fish in the seabream/porgy family Sparidae.
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Gilthead bream is a warm-temperate marine fish in the Sparidae family, prized both by anglers and in Mediterranean cuisine.
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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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Sweet, briny shellfish; eaten raw, steamed, or in chowders; adds rich depth to pasta sauces and broths.
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Palourde clams are highly prized bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, considered one of the finest varieties of clams.
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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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Popular white fish, flaky and mild-tasting; cornerstone of fish and chips, versatile for baking, poaching, or soups.
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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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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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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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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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Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, with over 500 species found primarily in North America.
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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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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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Gurnard is a distinctive bottom-dwelling marine fish belonging to the Triglidae family.
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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 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 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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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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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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Native lobster (Homarus gammarus), also called European or common lobster, is a blue clawed crustacean found in UK.
Learn More about Lobster – NativeMahi-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 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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Monkfish (Lophius species) are bottom-dwelling anglerfish with broad, flattened heads.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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 are small, silvery, pelagic fish belonging to the herring family Clupeidae, found in temperate and subtropical oceans worldwide.
Learn More about SardinesSea bass is one of the most popular round fish available. Most sea bass is now farmed and comes from…
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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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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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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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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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