Pisces Responsible Fish Restaurants

Pisces Responsible Fish Restaurants helps chefs find better, more local fish, by setting up a direct relationship between chefs and selected fishers.

We evaluate both the fish currently used by a restaurant and the potential alternatives, scoring for the eating quality of the fish, the fairness of the trading relationship between you and your fishermen, and the sustainability of the fisheries.

We make sourcing and ordering simple to implement for time-pressured chefs and restaurateurs.

Sourcing sustainable high quality local fish is a minefield for chefs. How can you find out for example, if there are plenty of cod or brill in the sea? Does the fishing equipment used to catch the fish damage the marine environment? What about discards? These are all questions that RFR can answer for you.

We know it will take time before all fisheries are better managed, but with your support we will be moving in the right direction.

Fish Scales
Vision is all very well, but you also need a plan and good foundations. As for our foundations, Pisces Responsible Fish Restaurants uses simple evaluation scales to assess the fish currently used by restaurants, and to evaluate fisheries that attract our interest. We score the quality of the fish, the sustainability of the fisheries and the fairness of the trading relationship between you and your fishermen.

This is not a paper exercise. After making a general assessment, we always go out onto individual boats and document their fishing practices first hand, and see if this results in further adjustments to the score. We always deal directly both with fishers and with restaurants. Where we feel we have sufficient information we rate a fishery using our five point scales. But it is important to note that the inclusion of a fishery in these pages does not imply an endorsement or accreditation of that fishery – you will find both low and higher scoring fisheries on these pages. Our focus is on driving up the overall scores of the ‘fish portfolios’ of restaurants.



É muito importante aproximar os produtores dos consumidores, ou como neste caso, dos responsáveis dos restaurantes.
E dar a possibilidade para quem quiser, restaurantes e consumidores, fazerem escolhas informadas e ambientalmente responsáveis sobre o peixe que adquirem.
O website tem imensa informação sobre consumo sustentável de pescado.
Tem também informação sobre as espécies, como podem ser capturadas e muitas imagens que servem para qualquer pessoa perceber melhor em que consiste a pesca.