River Cottage: Gone Fishing


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 the West Country. Fearnley-Whittingstall's goal is to encourage people to eat greater varieties of fish and shellfish.

List of episodes

Ep.Air DateSummary
18 November 2007Fearnley-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.