Mother City Fish

Mother City Fish is a small Cape Town business that supplies local, responsibly caught fresh fish directly from the boat to your home. At Mother City Fish we pride ourselves on sourcing only local, sustainable products, including ethically caught fish, and we feel that our ethics sets us apart. The best way to stay informed of when the boats are coming in is to join the WhatsApp group for your area.

Run by friends and fish-lovers Liz and Ren, Mother City Fish is a boutique business that sources local seafood fresh off the boats. Born from a desire to bring beautifully fresh and locally caught fish to consumers, Mother City Fish started as a small WhatsApp group notifying family and friends of whenever we landed a catch. Through family connections with a fishery based in Hout Bay, we retail a selection of fish such as hake, silverfish, yellowtail, yellowfin tuna and kingklip. Freshness is imperative and we take the process of delivering fish to our customers very seriously. By removing the many links of the cold chain used by supermarkets and food retailers, we’re able to deliver ocean-fresh fish to your door no more than a day after it was caught.

By keeping our seafood local and not importing items such as prawns or Norwegian salmon, we can keep prices affordable and portions generous. By using a supplier accredited by WWF-SASSI as well as the Hake Longline Association (SAHLLA) and avoiding the purchase of any trawled fish, Mother City Fish ensures that all of our seafood is sustainably and responsibly caught. While species such as swordfish and yellowfin tuna often feature on our product list, it’s important to remember that all seafood supplied by Mother City Fish has been caught either by longline, rod-and-reel or handline. These fishing methods limit bycatch, a reduced carbon footprint and little to no impact on marine environments. Unlike drag-netting or demersal trawling, longlining and handlining give the fishermen optimal control of the species they catch while providing them with integral information on stock levels.

Working all along the South African West Coast – from Agulhas to Namibia – our supplier fishes for deep water hake and kingklip – often going as far offshore as 30 nautical miles. Yellowtail tuna and swordfish are caught using rod and reel, most often from the area of Atlantic Ocean between Struisbaai and Yzerfontein. In short, we care about where the fish is caught, what fish is caught and how it was caught.