PARWICH.ORG

This seems like an ideal time of the week to alert people to the excellent local fish delivery service, which calls into Parwich every Friday afternoon.

The service is run by R.G. Morris & Son, a family firm which operates from Buxton. Bob and Daniel Morris provide a helpful, informative and cheerful service, and are happy to leave deliveries in out-buildings or with neighbours if their customers are still out at work.

Free range poultry and eggs are also provided, along with seasonal game.

To quote from the firm’s brochure:

We offer the highest quality seafood, ranging from sustainable wild and farmed fish, to organically farmed fish. We also provide a wide variety of shellfish from well-managed and environmentally friendly fisheries, such as rope-grown mussels and hand-dived scallops.

Some fishing methods have now been found to damage the environment and have become an unacceptable way of sourcing fish. As a company, we will endeavour to provide fish and seafood caught through sustainable methods, thus promoting and helping to ensure that our industry continues to grow and improve in a viable way.

Our fish is brought in from the various ports all around the country to our refrigerated depot. From there we distribute it to all our customers on a daily basis, ensuring that it is fresh and of the highest quality each day.

We have been using this service for several years, and have been absolutely delighted with it. (Try the dressed crabs, the Dover sole or the halibut – they’re all gorgeous.)

Contact details: 01298 72458 (8am to 8pm), 07968 734909 (24 hr mobile).

Full stock list:

Fresh whole fish: salmon (farmed/organic), rainbow trout, hake, line caught mackerel, Cornish sardines, farmed sea bass, gilthead bream, Canadian halibut, chicken halibut, grey mullet, farmed turbot, brill, Dover sole, lemon sole, plaice, monkfish, squid, john dory, wild sea bass, red snapper.

Fresh fish fillets: cod fillets, cod loins, cod counts, haddock, haddock counts, skinned coley, plaice fillets, trout fillet, red fillets, salmon fillet, sea bass fillets, block whiting, sardine fillets, sashimi grade tuna loin, swordfish loin, halibut loin.

Fresh smoked fish: natural smoked haddock, smoked cod, smoked mackerel, peppered mackerel, Manx kippers, kipper fillets, smoked salmon sides (sliced/whole), hot smoked salmon slices, Arbroath smokies, Finnan haddock.

Fresh shellfish: live rope mussels, live wild mussels, live surf clams, live palourde clams, live oysters, live crabs, live lobsters, boiled crabs, dressed crabs, tinned white crabmeat, dry cut dived scallops, peeled brown shrimps, fresh whole crevettes, razor clams, langoustine.

Frozen products: Polar Greenland prawn, Royal Greenland prawn, Arctic royal prawn, raw peeled king prawn tails, Royal Greenland shell on prawn, shell on king prawn tails, cooked & peeled king prawn tails, potted shrimps, half shell greenlip mussels, cooked cockle meat, cooked mussel meat, cooked whelk meat, breaded scampi, battered squid rings, seafood cocktail, whole sardines, small squid whole, breaded fishcakes, whitebait, tuna loin supremes, swordfish supremes.

Poultry & game: whole chickens, English chicken fillet, Polish chicken fillet, chicken thigh meat (skinned), oven ready ducks, Barbary duck legs, Barbary duck breast, guinea fowl, guinea fowl supremes, chicken livers, whole quail, boneless quail, pheasants, wood pigeons, partridge, mallards, diced venison, diced mixed game, turkey butterfiles, quails’ eggs, Macsween haggis, free range eggs, organic free range eggs.

Deli products: anchovies (in oil/with olives), cockles in brine, crayfish tails in brine, tiger prawns in brine, mussel meat in brine, prawns in brine, roll mop herrings, seafood salad in oil, herring in dill, herring in sherry, French fish soup, chorizo links, whole pancetta, unsmoked back bacon, boneless salted cod, Onuga herring caviar.