Domestic Seafood Supply Scheme supports English Fishing Industry

The £1 million Domestic Seafood Supply Scheme is supporting innovative ways to sell fish and shellfish across English Fishing Industry

Projects approved under the £1 million grant scheme supporting innovative ways to sell fish and shellfish across England.

The Domestic Seafood Supply Scheme was set up in April to help fund projects that will increase the sale and consumption of locally caught seafood. It was a competitive scheme, judged by an independent panel of fishing industry, government and Marine Management Organisation representatives.

The panel has now approved a total of 20 projects that have the potential to deliver significant collective benefits for the seafood industry in England.

The panel has awarded funding to businesses based across the country who submitted a range of innovative ideas to support their local fishing and seafood businesses get their products to market, including new processing operations, on-line auction and sales websites, and local transport solutions.

Projects were selected that could demonstrate they brought the greatest benefit to the industry as a whole, working across communities and regions, or with partners.

Some examples are:

In the South West, Newlyn Fish Market was awarded funding to create an electronic, cloud-based auction platform meaning local buyers can continue to ‘attend’ auctions and purchase catches.
In the South East, Yorwarth’s Fresh Fish in East Sussex was awarded funding for processing equipment to be used in a newly created hub to process and distribute locally caught inshore fish. This will mean orders could be distributed quickly and continued to provide a sales outlet for the local inshore fishing fleet.
In the North East, Riley’s Fish Ltd in North Shields was awarded funding for a refrigerated vehicle allowing them to support fishermen by providing an outlet for their catch to be sold.

Projects from the English Fishing industry approved for the Domestic Supply Scheme:

Ref	Applicant	Title	Region	Project cost	Match	Project cost less match
DSSS1010	Two Brothers Fishing Ltd	Business Development of Direct Selling & Promotion of Fishing Heritage & Day Boat Fish	South West	26,387	4,000	22,387
DSSS1156	Fish for Thought	Project Cornwall 2020	South West	81,152	20,288	60,864
DSSS1148	Venture Seafoods	Brexit/Covid Response	Yorkshire & Humber	194,141	97,070	97,070
DSSS1163	Riley’s Fish Ltd	North Shields Prawns and Lobster	North East	116,300	31,400	84,900
DSSS1060	Pengellys Famous Fishmongers	Pengellys selling direct.	South West	24,500	–	24,500
DSSS1013	W Stevensons and Sons ltd	Newlyn fish market electronic auction and national marketing programme	South West	148,359	48,359	100,000
DSSS1061	Silver Dawn Fishing Ltd	Establishment of new supply chains through diversification of fishing company into processing and sales	South West	159,501	59,501	100,000
DSSS1087	Weyfish	Weyfish Infrastructure Development Scheme	South West	58,105	11,621	46,484
DSSS1069	Wild Harbour	Online Retail Fish Box Scheme	South West	4,136	–	4,136
DSSS1133	Murt’s Shellfish	Shellfish and fish processing unit	South West	33,217	–	33,217
DSSS1123	Sam Cole Food Ltd	Sam Cole Home Delivery	South east	50,030	25,015	25,015
DSSS1040	Yorwarth?s Fresh Fish	Yorwarths Fresh Fish	South East	46,000	–	46,000
DSSS1176	T24 Seven Ltd trading as Crab Shed Salcombe	Crab Processing Unit	South West	33,066	–	33,066
DSSS1049	Whitby Fish Sales Ltd	Supply of Fish to Domestic Market – Scarborough Harbour	Yorkshire & Humber	96,804	19,361	77,443
DSSS1167	Clifton Seafood Company Ltd	Project Orca	South West	50,000	–	50,000
DSSS1161	The Stickleback Fish Company	Fish 4 Home	South East	45,000	–	45,000
DSSS1066	Palatine Fishing	Building a commercially sustainable local supply chain through refrigerated transport and distribution	South West	25,100	5,020	20,080
DSSS1140	Severn & Wye Smokery Ltd	Home Delivery and Fish-With-Sides	South West	41,000	–	41,000
DSSS1135	Moorcroft Seafoods Ltd	Moorcroft Seafoods – Home Delivery, mail order	Yorkshire & Humber	80,793	40,397	40,396
DSSS1054	BLUESAIL FISH LTD	LOOE LIVE TANKS PROJECT	South West	85,989	15,000	70,989