Young's Seafood

Young’s Seafood is a British seafood brand whose official history traces its origins to 1805. Elizabeth Young and her family, who worked as watermen and fishermen on the Thames at Greenwich, established the business. Young’s describes itself as having grown continuously while undergoing changes of ownership; the Young family remained involved until the late 1980s. The supplied company materials do not identify its current owner or parent company. The business began with whitebait and later became known for potted shrimp sold in distinctive blue pottery jars. Young’s says it commercialised scampi in the UK from 1946 and marketed the first frozen prawns. Its present range includes seafood products such as scampi, smoked salmon, fish fillets and other prepared fish products. The official website presents ranges including Chip Shop and Gastro, and offers recipes intended to help customers prepare fish and seafood at home. Grimsby has been Young’s home for more than fifty years, and the company identifies Ross House, on the Humber at Grimsby’s fish docks, as its leadership base. It describes Grimsby as its manufacturing and new product development centre of excellence. Young’s also reports five specialist sites across Scotland, producing products that include smoked salmon and scampi. The company says that 1,700 team members are based in Grimsby and nearly 2,000 people work at its Scottish sites. Young’s positions itself as a specialist seafood brand and says it aims to help people enjoy fish twice a week. Its Fish for Life programme is described as an approach to improving its impact across people, planet and partners. The brand remains active in consumer-facing marketing, including its Masters of Fish television campaign and online recipe content. In December 2025, it published a voluntary recall notice for a specific batch of Young’s Gastro Signature Breaded Lemon & Pepper Fish Fillets because an ingredient containing mustard was not declared on the label.

Young’s Seafood traces its history to 1805, when Elizabeth Young and her family established a business in Greenwich on the Thames. The family worked as watermen and fishermen, and the business began with whitebait. Over time, it developed into a seafood company whose history, as told by the brand, includes changes in ownership and product innovation. The Young family remained involved until the late 1980s, according to the company’s account. A later signature product was potted shrimp, sold in distinctive blue pottery jars. Young’s also highlights two milestones in the development of British seafood retail: it says it commercialised scampi in the UK from 1946 and marketed the first frozen prawns. The company’s own account presents these developments as notable firsts in its history, alongside its continuing focus on seafood. Grimsby became a long-standing base for the business. Young’s says the town has been its home for more than fifty years and identifies Ross House, on the Humber at Grimsby’s fish docks, as the base from which the company is led. It describes Grimsby as its manufacturing and new product development centre of excellence. The company also reports five specialist sites across Scotland, where products including smoked salmon and scampi are developed and produced. Its published account gives staffing figures of 1,700 team members in Grimsby and nearly 2,000 across the Scottish sites. Today, Young’s markets itself as a specialist seafood brand and describes its heritage as spanning more than two centuries. Its website presents prepared seafood ranges such as Gastro and Chip Shop, along with recipes for home cooking. The company also describes Fish for Life as its sustainability programme, intended to improve its impact across people, planet and partners, and states an ambition to help people enjoy fish twice a week. Its Masters of Fish campaign has included television advertising and an invitation for consumers to share their dishes on Instagram. The brand continues to issue product information and safety notices. On 19 December 2025, Young’s announced a voluntary recall of a specified batch of its Gastro Signature Breaded Lemon & Pepper Fish Fillets. The notice said that some packs had been made using an ingredient containing mustard that was not declared on the label, and advised customers with mustard allergies not to consume the affected product. Young’s stated that the recall was limited to the specified product batch and did not affect other Young’s products. The supplied sources do not establish the company’s current owner, parent company, or listed status.

• 2025

  Voluntary product recall notice

• 1980

  Young family involvement continued until the late 1980s

• 1946

  Scampi commercialised in the UK

• 1805

  Business founded in Greenwich

A specialist seafood brand drawing on a long heritage and presenting convenient fish and seafood products, recipes, and a stated aim to help people eat fish twice a week.

• Young’s Gastro range

  A seafood range presented on the official website; recipes include Gastro Wholetail Scampi and fish products.

• Young’s Chip Shop range

  A range presented on the official website as offering the authentic taste of the chip shop.

• Potted shrimp

  A historic Young’s product sold in distinctive blue pottery jars.

• Scampi

  A product associated with the company’s history of commercialising scampi in the UK from 1946.

• 2021

  Young’s Seafood fined after worker suffered severe hand injuries

  Young’s Seafood Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety law after a worker suffered severe injuries in a mixing machine incident. The company was fined £787,500 and ordered to pay costs.

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• 2020

  Young's Seafood recalls a product over undeclared ingredients

  Young's Seafood recalled one of its products because of undeclared ingredients, according to a news report. The report did not identify the specific product involved in the recall. No further details about the undeclared ingredients, the scope of the recall, or its outcome were provided in the available information. The event was reported on 19 May 2020.

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• Voluntary recall of specified fish fillet batchOther

• 2022.01.25

  Reported2022.01.25

  Young’s launches four frozen Gastro dishes[7]Young’s推出四款冷冻Gastro系列菜品thegrocer.co.uk

  Young’s Seafood launched four new dishes in its frozen Gastro range. They went on sale exclusively in Iceland and The Food Warehouse the week before publication.

• 2021.06.01

  Reported2021.06.01

  Young’s Seafood launches Masters of Scampi campaign[8]Young’s Seafood 推出 Masters of Scampi 营销活动thegrocer.co.uk

  Young’s Seafood launched its Masters of Scampi campaign, which showcases its four British- and Irish-caught scampi products and provides meal inspiration to consumers.

• Unconfirmed

  Reported2021.05.26

  Young’s Seafood fined after worker suffered severe hand injuries[6]Young’s Seafood fined after worker suffered severe hand injuriesfoodmanufacture.co.uk

  Young’s Seafood Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety law after a worker suffered severe injuries in a mixing machine incident. The company was fined £787,500 and ordered to pay costs.

• 2020.08.18

  Reported2020.08.18

  Young’s launches Mini Battered Fillets[9]Young’s 推出迷你裹粉鱼柳seafoodsource.com

  Young’s Seafood’s foodservice division launched 60-gram Mini Battered Fillets aimed at helping school caterers plan for the upcoming academic year. The new line was developed to meet School Food Guidelines.

• 2020.05.19

  Reported2020.05.19

  Young's Seafood recalls a product over undeclared ingredients[5]Young's Seafood recalls a product over undeclared ingredientsnewsandstar.co.uk

  Young's Seafood is recalling one of its products because of undeclared ingredients; the article does not identify the product.

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1. 1Home • Young’s Seafoodyoungsseafood.co.uk
2. 2Our Story • Young’s Seafoodyoungsseafood.co.uk
3. 3Watch our TV ads • Young’s Seafoodyoungsseafood.co.uk
4. 4Product recall notice - Young's Gastro Signature Breaded 2 Lemon & Pepper Fish Fillets 270g • Young’s Seafoodyoungsseafood.co.uk
5. 5Young's Seafood recalls a product over undeclared ingredientsnewsandstar.co.uk
6. 6Young’s Seafood fined after worker suffered severe hand injuriesfoodmanufacture.co.uk
7. 7Young’s推出四款冷冻Gastro系列菜品thegrocer.co.uk
8. 8Young’s Seafood 推出 Masters of Scampi 营销活动thegrocer.co.uk
9. 9Young’s 推出迷你裹粉鱼柳seafoodsource.com