The Crabstock Boys - Adrian Bartlett & Andy Hunting

Crabstock® is about teaching people about the health benefits of eating Great British shellfish as well as the social and economic importance of supporting the country’s fishing industry. We fully believe that our shellfish is the best in the world and that we should do all that we can to keep all our wonderful, nutritious, sustainable shellfish on the menu.

Crabstock® is (also) a fantastic opportunity to engage local inland communities, and our tag line for many years has been “Bringing the Coast to the Countryside” Since 2015 we launched a pop up seafood Fruit-de-mer restaurant “Crab, Stock & 2 Smoking Lobsters” serving a full seafood platter featuring some of the finest and freshest UK Seafood and is located at various food festivals around the UK and every year it just goes from strength to strength.

Collectively known as The Crabstock Boys we tour the UK with our very unique Crab Picking, Fish Filleting and cookery demos, we like to think that we entertain the audience as well as educating them in a fun way.

http://www.crabstock.co.uk

Adrian Bartlett

Adrian Bartlett from South Devon started fishing in 1986, starting as a deckhand then working his way up to skipper on Crabbing boats or potters based in Kingswear South Devon. Adrian has fished for Edible brown crabs, native lobster and other shellfish all around the UK coast but mainly built his crabbing career in the English Channel in the tidal waters North of Alderney (Channel Islands) on various boats and for various owners. After working in the industry for 28 years and being passionate about the UK Seafish Industry, an opportunity arose where he could share his knowledge and passion with the UK public and chefs to show how good UK Shellfish is to eat and how easy it is to pick a crab without fear, so along with Andy Hunting Crabstock® was born!

Adrian is also a trustee with Fishing into the future, and Crabstock® is the only festival to be a member of the SAGB Shellfish association of Great Britain, he also teaches at Cornwall college catering students the benefits of prepping shellfish correctly and flavour combinations, he works with Western marine training based in Plymouth training future fishermen and delivering safety awareness to the industry.