Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Steve Seymour of Drayton Harbor Oyster Company
Looking ahead to National Seafood Month in October, we are sharing this profile of a local seafood entrepreneur
By Olivia Horwedel, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Steve Seymour — a fisheries biologist-turned-oyster farmer — has always been passionate about the marine world.
Who Brings Your Seafood to You? An Interview with Mike Cornman of Westport Seafood
By Olivia Horwedel, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Mike Cornman, owner of Westport Seafood and Merino’s Seafood Market, was destined to work a career connected to the ocean. Cornman grew up in Westport, Washington — which at one point was known as the salmon capital of the world — and spent his summers working in his family’s fishing business that opened in 1985.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Robert Sudar, independent salmon distributor
By Maddie Hansen, WSG Science Communications Fellow
“I love salmon, they’re beautiful creatures,” says Robert Sudar, who currently works as a salmon distributor in Seattle. He has been involved in the fishing industry in one way or another for the past 50 years.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Dan Sleavy from Hige Tide Seafoods
By Benjamin Haagen, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Local seafood processors provide valuable services to their communities by supporting fishers, bringing consistent seasonal work to locals, and providing fresh seafood. Dan Sleavy manages one such processor based in Port Angeles, High Tide Seafoods, which has been a family-owned staple of the Olympic Peninsula since 1980.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Hazel Secor from Cape Flattery Fishermen’s Co-Op
By Benjamin Haagen, WSG Science Communications Fellow
Hazel Secor has been working as manager of the Cape Flattery Fisherman’s Co-op in Neah Bay, Washington since 2014, supporting the local fishing industry and working with fishers to process and distribute seafood to communities around the Olympic Peninsula.
Who brings your seafood to you? An interview with Dave Sones
Dave Sones is a fisherman and a member of the Makah Nation at Neah Bay. He’s been fishing since 1972, when he was 12 years old. As a young man, he worked at the Ozette Archaeological Site as an interpreter; later, he became fisheries manager and natural resources director for the Nation, holding those titles from 1982 to 2002.
Read moreWho brings your seafood to you? Hooked on Westport with Marina May
This story by deckhand Marina May has been republished from the City of Westport’s Experience Westport website. Marina splits her year between deckhanding out of Westport and teaching the next generation of veterinary technicians.
Read moreWho brings your seafood to you? An interview with Jania and Gene Panida
Jania’s brother Steve Wilson is a fisherman who fishes out of La Push. Years ago, Steve began selling his fish at farmer’s markets in the Seattle and Tacoma areas under the name Wilson Fish.
Read moreWho brings your seafood to you? An interview with Pete Knutson
Pete Knutson owns Loki Fish Company, a family business. He fishes mostly salmon, with a bit of halibut on the side. He’s the director of the Puget Sound Harvester’s Association, an industry group that represents non-treaty commercial salmon gillnet fishers, and when he’s not fishing, he’s a professor at Seattle Central Community College.
Read moreWho brings your seafood to you? An interview with Amy Grondin
Amy Grondin is a salmon fisherman and a sustainable seafood consultant. She owns Duna Fisheries, LLC with her business partner and husband Greg Friedrichs. When they’re not fishing on F/V Arminta, their 48-foot wooden fishing boat, their home port is Port Townsend.
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