Plymouth fish finger: From the Skippers Line to the School Meal Queue

The ‘Plymouth fish finger’ is a social innovation co-designed project that champions collaborations between community members, school students, school meal providers, fishers and fishing industry stakeholders, social enterprises and University of Plymouth (and Reading) researchers.

The iconic British product is ‘healthy’ and ‘sustainable’, makes use of low value underutilised fish species (pouting, dogfish, whiting), is supporting Small Scale Coastal fishing (SSCF) under-10m vessels and will be delivered into the local school meal system. The vision is to change supply chains and improve access to, affordability of and increase fish intake for local (deprived) communities as well as benefit the local fishing community.