Scottish Seafood Foodways

Specialised

Among the richest fisheries in Europe. LANGOUSTINE (Nephrops), scallops, crab and lobster from the west coast, most of it exported to Spain, France and Italy — ⚠ a documented pattern of landing the best shellfish and not eating it. Haddock above all in the east, and CULLEN SKINK, the smoked haddock, potato and onion soup of the Moray coast. ARBROATH SMOKIES, haddock hot-smoked in pairs over hardwood in a barrel, protected. FINNAN HADDIE, cold-smoked. Herring and the great fishery that once followed the shoals down the coast with whole communities of women gutting behind it. Oysters, mussels and Stornoway’s fleet.