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All About Eating Like A Fish

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Eat Like A Fish! In March I received an email from a marine science related listserv that I am subscribed to regarding a study being conducted by a Rhode Island based non-profit called  Eating with the Ecosystem . This organization was looking to enlist participants as citizen scientists for the second phase of a study called "The Other EBFM: Designing Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Marketing Strategies to Complement Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management." The overall goal of the study is to help make our local seafood markets more closely resemble our local ecosystems. Seeing the words 'citizen science' combined with 'local seafood' my immediate response was "WHERE DO I SIGN UP?!?" After filling out an online survey and patiently waiting, I was ecstatic to find out that I was chosen as a participant for this part of the study. Phase II will be utilizing 92 participants from all six New England states as market researchers. A small trai
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Eat Like a Fish - Week 1

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Aaaaannnnddd we're off.... This past week was the first week of 26 of "eating like a fish." For detailed information about the study I'm participating in and what's involved, make sure to stop over to my Eat Like a Fish page to read up about the protocol. This week's post will likely be longer than all the other 25 to come as I work out kinks, get over the novelty of participating (this may take a while though), and familiarize all my non-existent readers with the process. On Monday May 8th I received my first email with a link to a Google Doc for the assignments for all 92 participants in the study. I've got to admit, I was pretty excited to get my homework and get started and see what everybody else was going to be looking for. My four assigned species for week 1 were: Quahog ( Mercenaria mercenaria ) Dab/American plaice ( Hippoglossoides platessoides ) Bluefish ( Pomatomus saltatrix ) Red Hake/Squirrel Hake/Mud Hake/Ling ( Urophycis chuss )
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Eat Like a Fish - Week 3: Back to Back Blues

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Week three came and went and I can barely remember it already, especially since week four is almost over now as I write this. In my best attempt to not fall behind on posting, and because this past week was relatively uneventful and with a predicted outcome, I'll be keeping this post fairly brief. My species for week three were... Spot ( Leiostomus xanthurus ) Bluefish ( Pomatomus saltatrix ) Mackerel ( Scomber scombrus ) Cunner ( Tautogolabrus adspersus) After a quick look at my species, I again had a feeling of what I would be eating this week, and this time I knew I could make it come true. I catch cunner in our trawl net at work on a regular basis, but I've never seen a single one larger than about four inches, so I'm incredibly surprised to see that as a species on our list. I've since studied up and found out they get much larger than that, and I had absolutely no idea. Spot is a new one for me, but after reading a little bit, it sounded like it may be
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