Catch of the week

Find out what's in the net this week! WEDNESDAY, September 2nd up top and FRIDAY, September 4th further down below

Keep scrolling to see the list of available one-time add ons such as seaweeds, extra fish portions, shellfish, swag, and more!

Place your order for add-ons through our web store.

(Scroll down and check your email to find out what you’ll be reeling in!)

Wednesday: Neptune’s Delight & The Slab

About your seafood

Lingcod

Some of our members will enjoy lingcod reeled in by F/V Aimee June off of Eureka. As you can see in this photo, many lingcod have a brilliant turquoise color, so do not be alarmed. It actually goes away when you cook it, and it turns into a very tasty and versatile white fish.

Lingcod are caught by bottom trawl, Scottish seines, long lines, and by hook and line. Lingcod are famous for following hooked fish to the surface, and will often bite a fish as the angler reels it, spitting it out moments before capture. This phenomenon is called “hitch-hiking” by local fishermen. If you ever want to see a deckhand move real fast scream “hitchhiker!” next time you're on a party boat, and see what happens.

Check out the Fishwife's lingcod recipes for inspiration, and be sure to send us photos of your own culinary concoctions - you could win a Sea Forager apron! For more detailed information about lingcod, how the stocks are doing, how they are caught, and other fun facts, check out the lingcod info page and impress your friends!

ORIGIN: Reeled in aboard the F/V Aimee Juneoff of Eureka

METHOD: Hook and line

INFO PAGE: Click for more fishery info!

RECIPES: Easy teriyaki lingcod, coconut panko lingcod, mandarin lingcod, tahini baked lingcod, lingcod tapenade packages, lingcod fish tacos

PREP TIP: (optional) how to skin your fish fillet VIDEO

About your seafood

Oysters

PLEASE NOTE:

SINGLE orders will be in BROWN bag WITH a label - only take the order with your name on it
DOUBLE orders will be in MESH mesh bags WITH a label.

Chill the champagne (or beer!) and grab a lemon, and think of something to celebrate because you’ll be getting *18* Miyagi Miranda oysters from Stretch Island, WA. We happily support aquaculture facilities, especially these guys – a small, local family owned business that produces a great product, smaller quantities and higher quality.

A perfect example of sustainable aquaculture, these oysters are an important part of the future of seafood. While you're chilling the champagne you can keep your oysters cool by putting them in a bowl covered with a damp towel in the fridge. As with all shellfish, they are highly perishable and are best enjoyed immediately.

AW, SHUCKS: PREP: These are "smalls" so we’re throwing in a few more than usual. Our advice is simply to shuck 'em and enjoy them raw or with a squeeze of lemon. You can also enjoy them grilled or broiled. Need a shucking primer? ...VIDEO shuck, and enjoy!

METHOD: Aquaculture

ORIGIN: live from Stretch Island, WA

RECIPES: OYSTERS! Raw, broiled, or BBQ'd

INFO PAGE: Click for fishery info!

About your seafood

Penn Cove, P.E.I., or Mediterranean Mussels

With the wind and wether keeping our local boats off the water, we are super happy to celebrate sustainable aquaculture this week with Mediterranean mussels. These beauties are a special treat from the crisp waters of Totten Inlet, Washington. Approx 2.5lbs per order.

Steam these beauties in beer or wine and inhale the intoxicating scent of the sea! Check out the Fishwife's mussel recipes and be sure to send us photos of your culinary creation.

INFO PAGE: Click for more info!

BRING A BAG! Store in the fridge with a damp towel but do not submerge in water. Discard any shells that don't close when you tap them, or remain closed after cooking.

Preparation (be sure to read this)

Most of you guys will be familiar with mussels but in case you are not, here are some things you need to be aware of:

Mussels open up when they die. If any of your mussels are open before you cook them, tap them a few times: if they close up, they are still alive. If they do not close up they are dead and should be discarded.
As far as cooking mussels goes, nature provided mussels with a built in timer for boiling or steaming. Pour about a cup of beer, wine, or water, in a nice big pot and add your mussels. Cover with a nice tight lid and steam, shaking occasionally. When the mussels open up (even a little bit) they're done. Those mussels that do not open up should be discarded. Or check the Fishwife's recipe for a more fun version, but the principle is the same.
Rinse them well before cooking. And remove the beards! The mussels' beards are the bryssal fibers that connect them to the structure that they grow on. Pull these fibers off before you cook them.

ORIGIN: from the crisp waters of Totten Inlet, Washington

METHOD: Aquaculture

RECIPES: Easy steamed mussels with wine, Drunken Mussels with Fennel & Lemon, Coconut mussels, Seafood chowder with leeks, spicy thai mussels, Summer cioppino

About your seafood

Albacore Tuna

Awesome albacore tuna is swimming your way! Your beautiful albacore tuna were reeled in by Captain Bruce Martinelli and his wife Pilar, F/V Tantrum No. 1 way offshore of the coasts of Oregon, Washington and BC using rod and reel using troll gear as opposed to the gigantic Pelagic long liners that are so destructive.

Your albacore tuna loin will come skin off, blood line removed. Because it's IQF it's sushi-ready, or feel free to grill or pan sear it. Please note that the albacore is skin-off, and the loin is a very tender cut and less firm than the ahi tuna that you may have had before.

This is the highest-grade tuna on the market, sustainably caught. Check out the info page for more details, and peep the recipes too!

INFO PAGE: Click for more fishery info!

ORIGIN: Captain Bruce Martinelli and his wife Pilar, F/V Tantrum No. 1, way offshore of the coasts of Oregon, Washington and BC

METHOD: trolling (not trawling), using hook and line

RECIPES: Pan-Seared Albacore Tuna Loin, slap-dash albacore sushi night, Tahitian Poisson Cru, Tuna with red pepper sauce, Simple Poke, Albacore tuna skewers

About your seafood

Nearshore Rockfish (Black Rockfish, Yellowtail Rockfish, Vermillion, Canary Rockfish)

Reeled in by Captain Sergio aboard the F/V Bent Rod off of Morro Bay, CA. Most of the rockfish that end up in our local markets are drag caught, and the fact that these are not is really awesome. Of the rockfish species, this is a relatively short-lived, fast-maturing species that lives most of it's life on shallower water than many other rockfish species. Did I mention they're delicious?

This were all open access rockfish. The large size of the fish and the high numbers indicate the populations are doing exceedingly well. Try to remember folks, all these fish are being reeled to the boat (from several hundred feet down) by hand! Then filleted, packed and delivered a day after offload. I like to send a reminder about this occasionally. There is no part of the equation from fishing, to offloading, to cutting, to portioning to packing to delivery that doesn't take an extreme amount of luck, timing, hard work and dedication. Thanks!

INFO PAGE: Click for more info! Mostly yellowtail rockfish

ORIGIN: Captain Sergio aboard the F/V Bent Rod off of Morro Bay, CA

METHOD: rod and reel

RECIPES: steamed whole rockfish, rockfish tacos & Mexican slaw; rockin' rockfish cakes, seafood stew a la Parkside, poached fish with tomato and saffron, convict chowder, tapenade packages, OR just grill it! Light marinade and a BBQ - you're golden. We have a slew of Lingcod recipes that would work great too!

PREP TIP: (optional) how to skin your fish fillet VIDEO

About your seafood

Chilipepper Rockfish

Your beautiful chilipepper rockfish will be coming to us from Captain Fitz, F/V Mr. Morgan out of Half Moon Bay. Click the info page for more important details. Like many rockfish species these fish are long lived and slow growing, but the stocks are doing very well and the fishery is a model of good management.

ORIGIN: Captain Fitz, F/V Mr. Morgan out of Half Moon Bay

METHOD: hook and line

INFO PAGE: click the fish picture for more details!

RECIPES: rockfish tacos & Mexican slaw; rockin' rockfish cakes; poached fish with tomato and saffron, halibut with salsa verde, convict chowder, OR just pan fry it! Light marinade, squeeze a lemon on it and you're golden. Lingcod recipes would work nicely too.

About your seafood

Oysters

PLEASE NOTE:

SINGLE orders will be in BROWN bag WITH a label - only take the order with your name on it
DOUBLE orders will be in MESH mesh bags WITH a label.

METHOD: Aquaculture

ORIGIN: live from Stretch Island, WA

RECIPES: OYSTERS! Raw, broiled, or BBQ'd

INFO PAGE: Click for fishery info!

About your seafood

Petrale Sole

These are the ONLY TRULY sustainable petrale sole available anywhere. This is because we get them from the F/V Mr. Morgan out of Half Moon Bay which uses a Scottish seine - a very rare alternative to destructive trawling. This is the only Scottish seine on the West Coast of North America. Click the fish photo for more fishery info.

Petrale sole are deep water, super delicious flaky white fish. They are great pan fried, sautéed, broiled of baked. Check out my petrale sole info page for lots of great info, and visit the Fishwife's petrale sole recipes for inspiration.

INFO PAGE: Click for more fishery info!

ORIGIN: F/V Mr. Morgan out of Half Moon Bay

METHOD: Scottish seine

RECIPES: Panko sautéed petrale sole; broiled petrale sole with lemon, mustard and thyme; Sauteed petrale sole with bread crumb batter, oven-poached petrale sole with lemon caper sauce.

About your seafood

White Seabass

The bite is hot and some of our members will be enjoying white seabass! These giant fish are not really bass, but members of the croker family, and an open-access fishery. The only ones we get are hook and line caught, and when you see the size of these fish it’s remarkable to think that the fisherman is pulling in each one by hand.

BBQ, Broil, Bake. Thick, white, flaky slabs of total awesomeness. Be sure to read the white seabass info page for more fun facts, and send us your food photos and you could win a Sea Forager oyster shucker!

METHOD: Hook & line, rod & reel

ORIGIN: Captain Cory Otto on the F/V Yellowtime off of the Channel Islands, CA

SEABASS RECIPES: White sea bass with coconut-curry sauce, baked white seabass with lemon herb sauce, easy miso-marinated seabass, or any halibut recipe would work well too!

PREP TIP: how to skin your fish fillet VIDEO (optional - it’s also great and easy to cook skin-on)

Bon appétit!

About your seafood

Penn Cove, P.E.I., or Mediterranean Mussels

Steam these beauties in beer or wine and inhale the intoxicating scent of the sea! Check out the Fishwife's mussel recipes and be sure to send us photos of your culinary creation.

INFO PAGE: Click for more info!

BRING A BAG! Store in the fridge with a damp towel but do not submerge in water. Discard any shells that don't close when you tap them, or remain closed after cooking.

Preparation (be sure to read this)

Most of you guys will be familiar with mussels but in case you are not, here are some things you need to be aware of:

Mussels open up when they die. If any of your mussels are open before you cook them, tap them a few times: if they close up, they are still alive. If they do not close up they are dead and should be discarded.
As far as cooking mussels goes, nature provided mussels with a built in timer for boiling or steaming. Pour about a cup of beer, wine, or water, in a nice big pot and add your mussels. Cover with a nice tight lid and steam, shaking occasionally. When the mussels open up (even a little bit) they're done. Those mussels that do not open up should be discarded. Or check the Fishwife's recipe for a more fun version, but the principle is the same.
Rinse them well before cooking. And remove the beards! The mussels' beards are the bryssal fibers that connect them to the structure that they grow on. Pull these fibers off before you cook them.

ORIGIN: from the crisp waters of Totten Inlet, Washington

METHOD: Aquaculture

RECIPES: Easy steamed mussels with wine, Drunken Mussels with Fennel & Lemon, Coconut mussels, Seafood chowder with leeks, spicy thai mussels, Summer cioppino

add ons!

Add-ons for Wednesday must be placed through the web store by MONDAY at 3pm.

Add-ons for Friday must be placed through the web store by WEDNESDAY at 3pm.

place order

Featured

Fresh Anchovies

2 lb bag of local anchovies just in from SF! Mostly smalls and mediums, very delectable.

Add-on True Cod

Beautiful hook and line caught Alaskan true cod! IQF

Add-on Sablefish fillets

Sablefish fillets: buttery, flaky, deep-water sablefish from way off of Half Moon Bay.

Smoked Sablefish

Beautiful, local smoked sablefish (aka "blackcod") - delicious any way you slice it. Approx .72-85 lbs.

Barnacle Kelp Chili Crisp, Everything Seasoning, Sweet & Smoky Rub & Bullwhip Hot Sauce

Kelp Chili Crisp! Infuses fried crunchy, salty Alaska grown kelp, mouth-warming chiles de arbol, satisfying fried onion and garlic with a hint of sweetness into a refreshing and addictive topper. Medium spice level, you can drizzle plenty on your fantastic fish creations.

"Bullwhip" is the local name for bull kelp, and this flavorful hot sauce pairs perfectly with fish. Relatively mild, a depth of flavor from the kelp paired with heat from piri piri pepper will ignite your taste buds and leave your mouth warm.
Everything Kelp Seasoning: Kelp is the star of this classic bagel topper which tastes good on practically everything. Use this kelpy, garlicky, tongue-pleasing seasoning as a fish or meat rub, tempura add-in, scrambled egg enhancer, or on your favorite toast.
Sweet & Smoky Rub: Try this sweet, smoky, salty, and deeply satisfying kelp seasoning (think next-level blackened seasoning) on fish for an easy weeknight meal.

Jazz up your seasoning section now!

MARIN MIYAGI Oysters

A dozen Marin Miyagi oysters fresh from Tomales Bay! Mediums.

Add-on IQF Albacore Tuna Loin!

Blast-frozen albacore tuna loin. Skin off, blood line removed. Perfect for the grill, for searing, or sushi.

Ground Salmon Meat

1lb ground king salmon spooned from the frame of our fabulous fish and ready to be transformed into delicious salmon cakes, burgers, or "meatballs."

Salmon Wings

Salmon wings! Season these pelvic fins with lemon pepper and broil, fry or smoke to your heart's delight and enjoy the perfect appetizer. 10 fins per order

Add-on Monkeyface eel!

A local specialty, these were poke-poled one at a time.

Sustainable SHRIMP!

We are thrilled to offer one pound blocks of plate-frozen-on-the-boat (!) deveined and de-headed medium sized gulf shrimp. Lance is exactly the type of fisherman we want to support. Though he is not required by law to do so, he adapts his gear type to catch fewer shrimp and prevent endangered animals from getting killed. Just thaw and cook these delicious shrimp (and send us your dinner photos!) You can feel great about these domestic, highly well-regulated, and delicious shrimp. Bon appetit!

ADD-ON COHO SALMON FILLETS (IQF)

Wild-caught from the northern waters of Sitka, Alaska, Fairweather Grounds. They will come as fillets. Because it's IQF it's sushi-ready, or feel free to grill or pan sear it. Cook as you would king salmon, grilled, broiled, baked, or as poke or sashimi. Check The Fishwife’s recipes or just pan-seared a slab, squeeze a lemon on it and call it done!

California Halibut

Having friends over for dinner? Add an order of fresh, local California halibut fillets to your existing order! Local, hook and line caught halibut is delicious and sustainable.

Add-on Hot Smoked Trout

You may have had the McFarland Springs trout already and know it to be some of the finest eating with a remarkable story. But smoked…it is another thing entirely. Delectable…adaptable…transcendent. Too much? Try it yourself and see!

Add-on Rockfish fillets

FILLETS! Beautiful, tasty by-catch from the black cod fishery, these came off the F/V High Hopes, caught 15 miles straight out from the Golden Gate. This versatile fish is great for most recipes.

Add-on Salmon collars

2 salmon collars, great grilled, broiled, in chowders or whatever you like to do with it. Chopped up for convenience. (photo by Michael Graydon & Nikole Herriott)

Add-on Dungeness Crab!

1 crab cooked, halved, cleaned and ready to go. As with any shellfish, it's highly perishable and enjoyed immediately. Enjoy!

Red Boat Fish Sauce

Red Boat Fish Sauce: 250ml $8. Sustainable fish sauce is here at last! ingredients: anchovies and salt! 4o*N certified.

Cured Wild Salmon Roe Jar

Cured Wild Salmon Roe

Add-on Lingcod fillets

Local lingcod available for add-on, 1 order = dinner for 2, approx. 1lb. SAs you can see in this photo, many lingcod have a brilliant turquoise color, so do not be alarmed. It actually goes away when you cook it, and it turns into a very tasty and versatile white fish.

WHOLE Ocean Whitefish (Blanquillo)

Whole ocean whitefish ("blanquillo") approx 1.2 - 2.2 pounds, before gilled and gutted.

Dried Seaweeds

Dried seaweeds from Mendocino County! Select from Nori, Wakame, Kombu, or Sea Palm and enjoy as a chewy/crunchy sort of oceanic jerky, or add to soups, chowders, miso or re-hydrate by soaking in water for a few minutes and added to salads, sandwiches etc. Seaweeds are considered to be some of the most nutritious foods on the planet, full of iodine and other minerals (they have on average 50 percent more nutrients than most terrestrial plants).

ADD-ON Slab or Neptune's Delight orders!

Additional orders of Neptune's Delight or the Slab!

Manilla Clams

Live Manila Clams (approximately 2.5 lbs per bag) fresh from Willapa Bay, WA. Sustainable, and super fresh, these little beauties are a real treat.

McFarland Springs Rainbow Trout

This magically-tasty trout has a remarkable story about growing up in a radical sustainable fish farm, read about its journey here.

Add-on White Seabass Collars

The collar! Fatty, meaty, delicious, and perfect for the grill or broiler. Each collar is 1 or 2 large pieces depending on the size of the fish, totaling approximately around 1.5-3+ lbs.

Add-on Mussels

Not sure yet if our mussels will be from the crisp waters of Prince Edward Island or Penn Cove, but you can look forward to 2lbs+ per order. Steam these beauties in beer or wine and inhale the intoxicating scent of the sea! Check out the Fishwife's mussel recipes and be sure to send us photos of your culinary creation!

Add-on WHOLE Rockfish

Add-on whole rockfish, gutted and gilled. Perfect for steaming whole, see our rockfish recipes!

Add-on IQF Calamari

IQF (individually quick frozen), delicious and versatile squid! 2 lbs per order. From the F/V Sea Wave out of Monterey.

Sea Forager CSF Gift Certificate

Give the gift of delicious sustainability! 4 deliveries of dinner for 2 for $108 or 8 deliveries for $214.

Featured

Fresh Anchovies

2 lb bag of local anchovies just in from SF! Mostly smalls and mediums, very delectable.

Add-on True Cod

Beautiful hook and line caught Alaskan true cod! IQF

Add-on Sablefish fillets

Sablefish fillets: buttery, flaky, deep-water sablefish from way off of Half Moon Bay.

Smoked Sablefish

Beautiful, local smoked sablefish (aka "blackcod") - delicious any way you slice it. Approx .72-85 lbs.

Barnacle Kelp Chili Crisp, Everything Seasoning, Sweet & Smoky Rub & Bullwhip Hot Sauce

"Bullwhip" is the local name for bull kelp, and this flavorful hot sauce pairs perfectly with fish. Relatively mild, a depth of flavor from the kelp paired with heat from piri piri pepper will ignite your taste buds and leave your mouth warm.
Everything Kelp Seasoning: Kelp is the star of this classic bagel topper which tastes good on practically everything. Use this kelpy, garlicky, tongue-pleasing seasoning as a fish or meat rub, tempura add-in, scrambled egg enhancer, or on your favorite toast.
Sweet & Smoky Rub: Try this sweet, smoky, salty, and deeply satisfying kelp seasoning (think next-level blackened seasoning) on fish for an easy weeknight meal.

Jazz up your seasoning section now!

MARIN MIYAGI Oysters

A dozen Marin Miyagi oysters fresh from Tomales Bay! Mediums.

Add-on IQF Albacore Tuna Loin!

Blast-frozen albacore tuna loin. Skin off, blood line removed. Perfect for the grill, for searing, or sushi.

Ground Salmon Meat

1lb ground king salmon spooned from the frame of our fabulous fish and ready to be transformed into delicious salmon cakes, burgers, or "meatballs."

Salmon Wings

Salmon wings! Season these pelvic fins with lemon pepper and broil, fry or smoke to your heart's delight and enjoy the perfect appetizer. 10 fins per order

Add-on Monkeyface eel!

A local specialty, these were poke-poled one at a time.

Sustainable SHRIMP!

ADD-ON COHO SALMON FILLETS (IQF)

California Halibut

Having friends over for dinner? Add an order of fresh, local California halibut fillets to your existing order! Local, hook and line caught halibut is delicious and sustainable.

Add-on Hot Smoked Trout

Add-on Rockfish fillets

FILLETS! Beautiful, tasty by-catch from the black cod fishery, these came off the F/V High Hopes, caught 15 miles straight out from the Golden Gate. This versatile fish is great for most recipes.

Add-on Salmon collars

2 salmon collars, great grilled, broiled, in chowders or whatever you like to do with it. Chopped up for convenience. (photo by Michael Graydon & Nikole Herriott)

Add-on Dungeness Crab!

1 crab cooked, halved, cleaned and ready to go. As with any shellfish, it's highly perishable and enjoyed immediately. Enjoy!

Red Boat Fish Sauce

Red Boat Fish Sauce: 250ml $8. Sustainable fish sauce is here at last! ingredients: anchovies and salt! 4o*N certified.

Cured Wild Salmon Roe Jar

Cured Wild Salmon Roe

Add-on Lingcod fillets

WHOLE Ocean Whitefish (Blanquillo)

Whole ocean whitefish ("blanquillo") approx 1.2 - 2.2 pounds, before gilled and gutted.

Dried Seaweeds

ADD-ON Slab or Neptune's Delight orders!

Additional orders of Neptune's Delight or the Slab!

Manilla Clams

Live Manila Clams (approximately 2.5 lbs per bag) fresh from Willapa Bay, WA. Sustainable, and super fresh, these little beauties are a real treat.

McFarland Springs Rainbow Trout

This magically-tasty trout has a remarkable story about growing up in a radical sustainable fish farm, read about its journey here.

Add-on White Seabass Collars

The collar! Fatty, meaty, delicious, and perfect for the grill or broiler. Each collar is 1 or 2 large pieces depending on the size of the fish, totaling approximately around 1.5-3+ lbs.

Add-on Mussels

Add-on WHOLE Rockfish

Add-on whole rockfish, gutted and gilled. Perfect for steaming whole, see our rockfish recipes!

Add-on IQF Calamari

IQF (individually quick frozen), delicious and versatile squid! 2 lbs per order. From the F/V Sea Wave out of Monterey.

Sea Forager CSF Gift Certificate

Give the gift of delicious sustainability! 4 deliveries of dinner for 2 for $108 or 8 deliveries for $214.