Well-known fish cook and food writer Mitch Tonks has criticized a fellow Westcountry celebrity chef for warning people off cod in favor of lesser fish species.
The Dartmouth restaurateur said Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s recent campaigning Channel 4 program had created “more and more confusion” about which fish were sustainable to eat.
Tonks, who uses Marine Stewardship Council-approved (MSC) cod and haddock from Norway in his fish and chips, said he was “totally and utterly not in favor” of telling the public to boycott cod.
“Hugh’s Fish Fight has done a great job of highlighting many of the negative issues in the fishing industry, but going on TV saying ‘don’t eat cod’ is not a helpful way to get people to understand what they should be eating. We have got to be giving a more balanced view of the issues.”
