revealed in awards shortlist
The UK’s top 10 young fish friers were announced last month by the 2017 National Fish & Chip Awards, organised by Seafish.
Shortlisted as semi-finalists, are: Elise Boothroyd of Fochabers Fish Bar in Fochabers, Moray; Paul Gunn of The Bay Fish and Chips in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire; Andrew Hillier of Harbourside Fish & Chips in Barbican, Plymouth; James Houlston of Our Plaice in Kidderminster, West Midlands; Maria Magda Illioiu of The Real Food Café in Tyndrum, Perthshire; Sam Parry of Top Chippy in Llanrwst, Conwy; Luke Pope of Bankers FishRestaurant in Brighton, East Sussex; Daniel Straughan of Fish & Chips @ 149 in Barnard Castle, County Durham; Hank Kloppers and George Papadamou of Papa’s Fish & Chips in Hull, East Yorkshire.
The next stage of the competition will whittle down the shortlist, establishing the five finalists who will compete to be crowned the 2017 champion on January 26, 2017, in London. MORRISONS won the title of Meat and Fish Retailer of the Year at SuperMeat & Fish Awards 2016 at an awards ceremony in London in the summer.
All Morrisons’ seafood manufacturing takes place at dual locations on Europarc in Grimsby.
James Judd, fish category director at Morrisons, said: ‘We have improved the range of products produced at our manufacturing sites. For example, the newly expanded Grimsby seafood site produces the Supermeat award-winning Smoked Haddock Florentine.’ That took best new product to market category.
Full production began earlier this year at the former Headland and Kerry Foods plant.
It has helped it scale up capacity from 250 tonnes a week to double that, as it edges closer to employing the 500 people it planned. will be celebrated during this year’s Scot Fortnight, which is designed to showcase the country’s produce and the people who grow, make, cook and sell it.
The focus of the event, from September 3-18, are the primary producers - farmers hard work is the foun £14.3 billion food and drink sector.
industry consists of 2,000 boats and 5,000 worldwide retail value salmon is more than £1 billion.
Some 65,000 people are directly employed in agriculture and 75 per cent of Scotland’s land mass is under agri
Scotland Food and Drink chief project manager Fiona Richmond said: ‘Scotland is rightly recognised as a land of food and drink and I encourage people to discover for themselves the producers that merit this
‘With more than 200 events across the country, I urge everyone to get behind the fortnight. Other support include supermarkets, independent retailers, farm shops, visitor at and restaurants so it’s easy to sample produce and learn more about drink heroes.’