Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Jesse Holden, fisherman, shellfish farmer and geoduck diver
By Alison Lorenz, WSG Communications Project Coordinator
One of the first questions to ask in a fisherman profile is what all the fisherman catches. Many fishermen specialize in one or two species, but some target several.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Julia Richfield, food service director at Boistford School
By Alison Lorenz, WSG Communications Project Coordinator
For Julia Richfield, 2022 was a year of new things. She moved to a new place–Chehalis, Washington–and got a new job in a new field.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Joe Malley, fisherman and owner of St Jude Tuna
By Jess Davis, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Prior to his life as a commercial albacore tuna fisher, Joe Malley was a graduate student and mathematics scholar teaching at the University of Oregon.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Maggie Michaels of the High School Seafood Butchery program
By Brian McGreal, WSG Science Communications Fellow
In the spring of 2024, students at high schools up and down the Oregon coast engaged with a different sort of education. Armed with sharpened knives and fish scalers, high school students learned to debone albacore, filet salmon and shuck oysters under the auspices of the Oregon Coast Visitors Association’s newly launched Seafood Butchery Pilot Program.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Rob Seitz, fisherman, poet and business owner
By Brian McGreal, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Recently, Rob Seitz’s sister wished him a happy 31st wedding anniversary and asked what he and his wife Tiffani would be doing to celebrate.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Roger Bain, fisherman of the Makah Tribe
From the Summer 2025 Sea Star
By Jess Davis, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Growing up in Washington state and a member of the Makah Tribe, Roger Bain’s ancestral and more-recent family history might suggest that he was destined to become a fisherman.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Nick Mendoza, founder of a seafood snack company
By Alison Lorenz, WSG Communications Project Coordinator
To friends and family, Nick Mendoza has always been “the fish guy.” From what he describes as an “uncanny obsession” with fish in his youth to his work as a marine scientist, a love of the ocean is as inherent to Mendoza as his entrepreneurial spirit.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Thomas Foster-Kibbler and Heather Auld of Foster Fisheries
By Alison Lorenz, WSG Communications Project Coordinator
Before Thomas Foster-Kibbler got into commercial fishing, he wanted to be an EMT on a firefighting crew. He was living in sunny Los Angeles County, training to help others.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Dawn Ruquet of Taylor Shellfish Farms
A story of community, connection and, of course, oysters
By Katalin Plummer, WSG Science Communications Fellow
When I first sat down with Dawn Ruquet in the Taylor Shellfish restaurant located in Pioneer Square, Seattle, she assured me that her story was ordinary, nothing to write home about.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with John Alto and Amy Sharp, a couple who work on their own commercial salmon troller
The power couple reflected on how, for them, fishing is a craft that is passed down through generations and rooted in community
By Andrea Richter-Sanchez, WSG Science Communications Fellow
They say nothing brings people together better than good company over a warm home-cooked meal, and that story was no different for John Alto and Amy Sharp.