Chef Quirke’s Quick Queenies

We were getting into the festival spirit early so put together this short video of two of our favourite Queenie recipes to get your mouths watering. So get inspired and send us your favourite Queen Scallop recipe to our Queenie Recipe Competition.

Hairy Bikers to make an appearance at Marine Day

The Hairy Bikers, Si King and Dave Myers will be making an appearance at the Marine Day ‘Festival of the Sea’ down at Port St Mary as the week long Queenie Festival will draw to a close!

Dave & Si will be cooking up Queenie treats on the outdoor barbecue and will also be part of the panel of experts judging both of the Queenie recipe competitions. The Hairy bikers are looking forward to coming over for the Islands first ever Queenie festival and are extremely pleased to be supporting the Marine Day and helping to raise the profile of the event both on and off island.

Si and Dave have been extremely busy of late as they film a new series for the BBC which will be hitting our screens in the autumn.

Marine Day ‘Schedule of Events’ announced

The Schedule of events for Marine Day “A festival of the sea” on 9th August 2008 has now gone up on the Marine Day page of this site. We are absolutely delighted with the list of guests appearing and are sure that the program of events will make for an absolutely fantastic day out.

Cool Seas Roadshow hits the Isle of Man schools

It’s great to see the fantastic work the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the Department of Education are doing to promote the marine wildlife and marine conservation in the local primary schools this week, a similar aim of the organisers of Marine Day.

A full report is featured on IOM Newspapers.

BBC Springwatch Sea Life programme

The BBC’s Springwatch series on Tuesday night covered Sea Life and included a good eight minute feature on the Isle of Man.

Due to the vagaries of landings over the years Manx Fishermen have worked on technical conservation regulations in order to ensure that stocks have remained robust. These have included restrictions on fishing times, closed seasons and limitations on the amount of dredges permitted. The Island also has two areas in Manx waters, one that has been in place since 1989 and the other created in 2008, that are closed to mobile fishing. These are supported by the fishing industry and indeed the impetus for the Douglas closed area was started by the fishermen. Data analysis seems to support the viability of these areas’.

You can re-watch the programme here: BBC Springwatch Sea Life programme.

Queenie Recipe Competitions

We’ve just had the final draft of the Queen Scallop recipe competitions passed under our noses so all being well the details will be released in the next few days. What we can tell you is there will be two competitions, one for restaurateurs, and one for the general public. And if the accolade of Queenie recipe champion 2008 isn’t enough the prizes on offer look great too!

Keep an eye on the Queenie Festival web page for full details and an application form. Get practicing!!

Isle of Man Queenie Festival – 2nd to 9th August 2008

Welcome to the website for the Isle of Man Queenie Festival. Over the coming weeks we’ll be adding loads of information about how you can get involved in the first Isle of Man Queenie Festival and also the Marine Day ‘Festival of the Sea’ taking place on the 9th August in Port St Mary. We can’t wait, and it’s not long to go now!

There is so much work going on behind the scenes so we will be keeping you up to date with all the latest developments in the run up to the Queenie Festival so watch this space!