Restaurants

As Nature Intended

201 Chiswick High Rd, W4 2DR (8742 8838). Turnham Green tube. Branches in Balham and Ealing Broadway.

An ambitious organic food chain that receives fresh fish from Cornwall-based supplier Edwards Fishmongers. Co-founder Jamie Edwards is a firm advocate of improving commercial fishing methods for the good of the ocean – and for fishmongers. Look out for the farmed salmon here.

Chelsea Fishmonger

10 Cale St, SW3 3QU (7589 9432). Sloane Square tube then 19, 22 bus.

Rex Goldsmith focuses on sustainability as well as quality. Soft inshore and non-destructive fishing methods (such as hook-and-line) are preferred. Brill, overfished in the North Sea, is therefore sourced from the waters off Britain’s south-west.

Covent Garden Fishmongers

37 Turnham Green Terrace, W4 1RG (8995 9273). Turnham Green tube.

CGF’s cod is sourced from Iceland where stocks are more sustainable than in other Atlantic waters. Ditto for its Icelandic haddock – which are overfished off the west of Scotland and the south-west – and Icelandic plaice, overfished off the west of Ireland.

Whole Foods Market

63-97 Kensington High St, W8 5SE (7368 4500). High St Kensington tube.

At this Kensington flagship, you’ll find Marine Stewardship Council-certified 'fish to eat' such as Alaskan salmon, South African hake (avoid European hake, which has already been depleted and is fished at unsustainable levels). Read more

Abel & Cole

If there are no suitable fishmongers near you, you can order online. Abel & Cole’s farmed salmon (avoid wild Atlantic varieties) and trout are both on the Marine Conservation Society’s 'fish to eat' ‘list. The company also consults the MCS’s Sustainable Fish Buying Policy. Read more