Cuisine of Ceredigion bacon and leeks are added to a pastry-lined dish before being baked. Sand eels (llymriaid) were also eaten as part of the local diet and were usually fried in bacon fat. Lobster and shellfish are an important sea food industry for Ceredigion. However, by the 1980s the lobster stock of Cardigan Bay had become seriously depleted and this led to the Development Board for Rural Wales commencing a restocking programme. As a result, 19,000 baby lobsters were tagged and released off Aberystwyth between 1984 and 1988. Although fishing has been a traditional activity in Ceredigion for generations, fish stocks became
2000 Ceredigion by-election Assembly by the UK Treasury, and the chief reporter for "Wales on Sunday" newspaper Martin Shipton stood as a single-issue candidate demanding 'Match Funding now'. The Labour administration in the Welsh Assembly insisted that such a demand misrepresented the resourcing of Objective 1 programmes. Polling day in the by-election was 3 February. Plaid Cymru retained the seat comfortably, with the Liberal Democrats taking second in a seat they had previously held from 1974 until 1992 – and would win again in 2005. 2000 Ceredigion by-election The Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament for Ceredigion, Cynog Dafis, was unexpectedly elected to the