Kent-based food hall Macknade has taken its sustainable business to the next level by launching a new fish butchery.
The company, which specialises in Anglo-Italian cuisine, has teamed up with the Pesky Fish platform to guarantee fish and seafood from wholly sustainable sources with full traceability.
Each and every single fish will be traceable right down to the boat and fisherman who caught it,” said Stefano Cuomo, managing director of Macknade. ”Our partners at Pesky Fish use only non-destructive methods of fishing. We plan to mirror our approach to meat with an ethos grounded in provenance, knowledge and skill. Our aim at Macknade is to continually move forward to a sustainable world where, as humans, we are equitable stakeholders alongside our fellow flora and fauna. How we consume fish is central to this.”
The fishing seasons will have a big part to play in what’s on offer at Macknade whilst Pesky’s sustainability index, a system of scoring fish species according to their stocks and availability in the wild will determine which species will be on offer.
“We are using an ever-growing supply of seasonal, geolocation and environmental data and with this we are able to help both fishermen and our buyers predict what's likely to be caught today and tomorrow as well as the days, weeks and months to come,” explained Ben King, skipper at Pesky.
