I grew up knowing my Dad’s best friend was a fisherman. For years I’d hear my father reminisce about the days when he and Kirk built fly rods together and lured eels, bass, and lingcod along the California coast. I also knew that these adventure-book tales eventually became a career-reality for Kirk. After years of bumming around Point Reyes and Half Moon Bay, Kirk founded his company, called Sea Forager, where he ethically catches, guts, and delivers fish to San Francisco residents. He has more than 2,000 customers, leads ocean exploration and sustainability tours on the side, and is the author of two books. And, as I was reminded by Kirk, he holds the record for the largest monkeyface eel ever caught in California.

The ocean needs you to check your sunscreen

Many of the common ingredients in chemical sunscreens are hazardous to coral reefs. Protecting our skin doesn't have to come at the cost of this precious ecosystem. The solution? Switching to a mineral sunscreen.

An ocean farmer dreams big, for all of us

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Is sustainable seafood for real? A review of the movie Seaspiracy

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Supporting your local fisherman—and ocean—is easier than ever

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Eating “next-generation” fish can help save the ocean

Eating new varieties of fish, like trash fish or bycatch, can help oceans recover.

Can kelp help save us? Only if we eat it.

Kelp is nutritious, sure. But it’s also one of the most powerful climate change fighters to ever enter the food category. It de-acidifies ocean water, sequesters phosphorus, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide, and improves water quality so significantly that shellfish farmed alongside it have stronger shells and larger, sweeter meat. The problem for local kelp fisherman? Not enough people want to eat it.

Why clean seafood will be worth the wait

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Oyster farmers unite to fight global warming

Leaders in world of seafood have joined forces to raise awareness of their fragile industry. Read on to learn how we can help them fight our common enemy: climate change.