Western Morning News food editor Carol Trewin has won a top award for a cookbook she wrote which also tells the story of fishing in Cornwall.

Cornish Fishing And Seafood was named the Best Local Cookbook in the Gourmand World Cookbook awards and will now enter the international level of the competition, to be decided in Beijing in April.

Carol said: “I’m absolutely delighted because it’s so unexpected. They judge thousands of books from all over the world.”

The book features recipes from a number of local chefs using fish from sustainable sources, and profits from sales of the book go to the Duchy Fish Quota Company to help buy fishing quota for Cornish fishermen.

Carol said: “The book is very different from a normal cookbook. There’s a history of the fishing industry and I look at how we got from the first fishermen to the present day.”

As well as writing and editing the WMN food pages, Carol has written two books on Cornish food with photographer Adam Woolfitt, the first of which, Gourmet Cornwall, won the same award last year.

Cornish Fishing And Seafood will now be judged against books in other languages for the title of best in the world. The results will be announced in Beijing in April.

Past winners of the award include celebrity chefs Rick Stein and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.