Brian Briggs from the band is a conservationist and general fish lover, and wrote the Good Fish Guide song whilst on a field trip in Pembrokeshire. \u201cI was trapped at the back of a lecture series on evolutionary genetics, and might have died from confusion if I hadn\u2019t spent the time staring at the MCS Good Fish Guide that was stuck up on the wall. I spent three days reorganising fish names into a rhyming, alliterating tongue-twister, and the next three months trying to learn it by heart\u201d.<\/p>\n
The \u201cGood Fish Guide\u201d song is available to download from eTunes and iTunes with all profits donated to MCS. It also features on Stornoway\u2019s EP \u201cOn the rocks\u201d, which is available from the same websites and on CD from Truck, Rough Trade, and directly from www.myspace.com\/stornoway. The CD will contain a free wallet-sized copy of the MCS Good Fish Guide.<\/p>\n
MCS has also produced an online guide to buying eco-friendly fish at www.fishonline.org. The website provides information for 150 species of seafood, with revised lists of \u2018Fish to Eat\u2019 with a clearer conscience, and \u2018Fish to Avoid\u2019 from unsustainable and damaging fisheries. A handy Pocket Good Fish Guide has also been produced, and is available free from MCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Marine Conservation Society \u201cGood Fish Guide\u201d, published by MCS, has been immortalised in song, as a single to be released by the band Stornoway on April 4th. MCS says its not just a catchy tune – \u201cGood Fish Guide\u201d has an upbeat message of hope for anyone concerned about declining fish stocks and the welfare of our seas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}