When thinking about local seafood, people often imagine fishermen and women on Monterey Bay harvesting fish, crab, and shrimp. But behind the scenes, many indispensable people are working hard: cleaning, fileting, and packaging local seafood before it hits your dinner plate. Marthá Lopez Ramirez, a fish cutter at Lusamerica Seafood in Morgan Hill, is one of those people.
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Calder Deyerle is one of the most recognizable faces in the Monterey Bay fishing community. He’s young, approachable, and engaged, having taken a lead on finding solutions to many of the biggest problems that local fishermen and women face.
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Roberts currently manages domestic sales and operations at Del Mar Seafoods based in Watsonville. Randy started with the company in 1993, learning the ropes and advancing up the ladder to where he is today.
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Neil Guglielmo, owner of the F/V Trionfo in Monterey, has been commercial fishing for 62 years. While his dad tried to dissuade him from fishing for a living, a life on the ocean was exactly what he wanted.
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Seventeen years ago, before seafood was called “sustainable”, fisherman Hans Haveman was selling his catch at Monterey Peninsula farmers' markets and telling people why they should buy local fish. “I saw that there was real passion in organic food,” he said. “And I liked being a part of that.”
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Scott Fosmark is a fifth generation commercial fisherman from Monterey. He came of age learning how to wrestle salmon, albacore tuna, and even swordfish onto the deck and into the hold.
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Alan founded Real Good Fish (formerly Local Catch Monterey Bay in 2012) as a solution to reconnect our communities to the ocean and local fisheries. Alan was honored at the White House in 2016 as a “Champion of Change” for innovations in Sustainable Seafood.
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Tim Obert skippers two Dungeness crab boats and a commercial salmon outfit along the coast of California. At age 35, he shoulders a lot of responsibility, but he’s never considered doing anything else.
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Joeleen lives off both land and sea. When she’s not working on her ranch in Carmel Valley, she’s wrangling the team on the light touch trawler, the F/V Pioneer, alongside childhood friend Giusseppe ‘Joe’ Pennisi. She’s a relative new commer to the industry but picked up the ropes very quickly. Her potent combination of determination and charm is hard to forget.
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At Wild Fish in Pacific Grove there’s never any question about where your seafood comes from: the name of the boat and, often, the name of the captain are included in a fish’s description on the menu.
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Fisherman
Walter Deyerle is the quintessential waterman. When the 30-year-old is not making a living catching halibut, rockfish, sablefish and Dungeness crab on the Monterey Bay, he’s surfing, diving, boating and sport fishing. He’s even paddled out and caught waves at Mavericks, a monstrous break just north of Half Moon Bay.
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Chef
For chef Pamela Burns at The Wild Plum in Monterey “fish of the day” means just that: fresh, local fish recently brought to the dock by someone who lives along the same shore as she. It’s not a placeholder for fish long forgotten in the freezer with a source obscured by time and middlemen.
Fisherman
There are few people who are as excited to get up in the morning and go to work as David Toriumi, 36, a Watsonville native who fishes out of Santa Cruz. Toriumi made his passion a profession and still hasn’t lost his youthful enthusiasm for the sea in doing so.
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Fisherman & Fishmonger
Brendan Pini is co-founder of Fished and Foraged, a Santa Cruz based company that provides fish from the Monterey Bay and mushrooms from the Santa Cruz mountains to local restaurants and markets.
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Deckhand
Lorenzo grew up in Watsonville, but much of his education took place in Moss Landing and on the Monterey Bay. Starting at about the age of five, his father took him to the jetty and beach to fish, and then out on a motorboat to where they spent weekends baiting hooks and casting.
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Restaurant Owner, Chef
Cindy and Ted Walter are co-owners of Passionfish Restaurant in Pacific Grove...They are spokespeople and educators when it comes to sourcing food responsibly- particularly when it comes to seafood and the ocean.
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Wholesale Fish Buyer & Seller
Roger Whitney has been part of the Monterey Bay fishing community since he was a child. He grew up fishing for albacore, salmon and smelt in the Monterey Bay with his father.
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Community Supported Fishery (CSF), Fishermen
Having met each other in school, Ian Cole and Charlie Lambert began exploring their passion to make fresh, local seafood accessible to their communities. The goal of Ocean2Table is to deliver fresh fish (within one day of being caught), while also educating the consumer about where their fish is coming from.
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Fisherman
Born into a fishing family, Jerid grew up on the ocean. Starting at the age of five, he spent his childhood fishing with his dad on albacore boats.
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Fisherman & Fishmonger
Calder Deyerle fishes for Dungeness crab, King salmon, California halibut, black cod and rockfish on the Monterey Bay. He grew up crewing for his father Richard and uncle Daniel Deyerle, owners of Sea Harvest restaurants and a wholesale seafood business by the same name.
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