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
History of the Welsh language such as Cardiff with an increase from 6.6% in 1991 to 10.9% in 2001, and Rhondda Cynon Taf with an increase from 9% in 1991 to 12.3% in 2001. However, the number of Welsh speakers declined in Gwynedd from 72.1% in 1991 to 68.7%, and in Ceredigion from 59.1% in 1991 to 51.8%. Ceredigion in particular experienced the greatest fluctuation with a 19.5% influx of new residents since 1991. The decline in Welsh speakers in Gwynedd and Ynys Môn may be attributable to non-Welsh-speaking people moving to North Wales, driving up property prices to levels that local Welsh speakers cannot