The first Newquay Fish Festival held 13/14 September in Newquay Harbour has been hailed as a huge success. The good weather brought crowds of people down to enjoy the wet fish and shellfish displays and cookery demonstrations by local chefs from Finns Restaurant, Dolphin Restaurant, the Fort, Hotel Bristol, Lusty Glaze Beach Restaurant, Porth Veor Manor Hotel Restaurant and St Austell College.

The event was funded by the Objective One Fisheries Programme and supported by Seafish as part of the ‘Fish Forever’ campaign to promote fish locally. Further funding by Newquay Town Council helped to provide additional entertainment for the event including a Jazz Band and Celtic Band, Newquay Zoo painted fishy faces on the children and the Blue Reef Aquarium brought their rock pool road show to intrigue the crowds.

Event organiser Gill Moore from Newquay for Excellence Training was thrilled with the response, she said "We were absolutely delighted with the support from the local community for the event, a great weekend was had by all and we are already thinking of ways to build on this great start for next year".

Alison Elvey, Objective One Fisheries Programme Manager commented, "It was great to see the Newquay fishing community so enthusiastic and positive about the event. It is hoped that this will now become a regular festival to promote fish caught locally".