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
Cardigan, Ceredigion works sympathetically restoring many of the shop facades in the town centre. The quayside has been rebuilt with a new civic area and landing stage. Cardigan was named one of the best places to live in Wales in 2017. The town has a hospital, college, modern arts centre (with three-screen cinema), theatre and recently refurbished 19th century guildhall housing market stalls; for shopping there are supermarkets and town centre shops and several trading estates. Cardigan's college, "Coleg Ceredigion", is located north of the town centre and educates 700 full-time and 2,000 part-time students in both Welsh and English languages, and