Described by Elystan Street chef Phil Howard as ‘quite simply the best fishmonger in the land’, Johnny Godden’s journey to managing director of Flying Fish Seafoods started when he left school in Gloucester and joined a seafood supplier, working his way up from filleter to buyer and then sales manager. The experience inspired him to move to Cornwall to be closer to the source of the fish and set up his own business, with an ethos of responsible sourcing at its heart.
I didn’t do well at school – I left a year early without any GCSEs – but my brother got me a job washing boxes at the
