Tips for eating life from the Sea: Join a CSF Many of us are familiar with CSAs- Community Supported Agriculture, where one a week you receive a bag of beautiful fresh vegis and fruit directly from a farm. If you live in Santa Cruz or the Bay Area you can join a Community Supported Fishery share program and receive beautiful fresh fish already filleted and ready to cook. OCEAN2TABLE Check out http://www.getocean2table.com/ a CSF out of Santa Cruz also offered to Bay Area res

Tips for eating life from the Sea: Buying seafood Skip the store, buy right from fishermen. All coastal areas in CA have harbors and coves/piers where there is commercial fishing activity going on. Ask around where the commercial dock or hoist is; seasonal availability of the type of fish changes, but there will always be someone (the fishermen or the commercial buyer at the dock) around selling what is in season. Looks for guys in brown XTUFF boots, hoodys and orange bib-pan

Tips to Eating Life from the Sea: Fish for it Yourself Hop on a kayak, an SUP, a surfboard or a friend's boat and venture out onto the ocean Learn what species are common to your area and learn their biology- it is different in different areas, ask around experienced fishermen will know what is common or check RecFIN.org a resource to look back at catch from specific areas. Allowable limits are just a maximum guideline- don't be greedy, only take what you need, seafood is bet

I will occasionally include tips to living towards a healthier ocean on my website through this blog. I will also try to share cool or awful news and items relating to our ocean and the life that live in it. We get around 70% of our oxygen on planet Earth from the plants in our oceans- that means that humans wouldn't even be around if it weren't for the life in the sea. Please realize that that your everyday health and wellbeing depends on a healthy ocean and please help adju