River Cottage: Gone Fishing

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River Cottage: Gone Fishing
Starring Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes3
Production
Executive producerAndrew Palmer
Release
Original network Channel 4
Original release8 November (2007-11-08) 
22 November 2007 (2007-11-22)

River Cottage: Gone Fishing is a Channel 4 programme that follows Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as he explores more sustainable fishing methods in the Channel Islands, Scotland and back in the West Country. Fearnley-Whittingstall's aim was to get people to eat greater varieties of fish and shellfish. [1] [ failed verification ]

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List of episodes

Ep.Air DateSummary
18 November 2007 [2] Fearnley-Whittingstall leaves his home base of River Cottage and travels to the Channel Islands with two friends to source for fish less known to the British palate. They find species like Garfish and meet new contacts that introduce them to seaside snacks like Limpets.
215 November 2007Fearnley-Whittingstall continues his fishing tour by heading to the Hebrides, cooking up sustainable salmon, diving for Razor clams and pitching pollack versus cod in a Fish and Chip shop.
322 November 2007Fearnley-Whittingstall concludes the series by returning to his home in Dorset and cooking up sustainable sardines, investigating sustainable trawling and ending with a fishing competition using Carp with his colleague Gill Meller.

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References

  1. Channel 4 (9 July 2013). "Hugh on River Cottage: Gone Fishing". Channel 4. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  2. Mirror Online (8 November 2007). "River Cottage: Gone Fishing". Mirror Online. Retrieved 8 December 2018.