To our friends and community,
Welcome to the newly revamped Choose Local F.I.S.H. news page! We’re developing this page to better inform you, the consumer, about several of our ongoing program offerings. Content that you can expect from this news page include local fish recipes and corresponding cooking video release dates and links, highlighted local species info, local fish market info and outreach events, new merchandise in our online shop, general fisheries info and much more!
We aim to update this page on a bi-weekly basis as a way to summarize how the Choose Local F.I.S.H. program is helping to better serve our fishing community.
Thank you!
The Cornell Fisheries Team
Kristin Gerbino and Tara McClintock manning our outreach table outside Southold Fish Market
Introducing the Cooking With Local FISH Video Series
We are also very pleased to introduce our Cooking With Local FISH video series. Living on Long Island we are surrounded by water and the finest seafood available. Long Island’s fishermen work hard to bring the freshest, highest quality seafood to your plate. Choosing local seafood is important for so many reasons. Local seafood is sustainably-harvested and in compliance with U.S. and state regulations which are some the strictest in the world. Choosing local seafood allows consumers to know the direct origin of their food. And each purchase of local seafood supports the economic viability of fishermen, coastal fishing communities and small businesses.
Get ready to explore new healthy and simple ways of cooking well-known local species and also get adventurous with new flavors and textures of some lesser-known but just as delicious local seafood options.
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Featured Recipe - Blackened Whiting Tacos
We're starting our Cooking with Local F.I.S.H. video series off with a bang! We're sure you've have tacos in the past and maybe even fish tacos. We're changing it up a bit by using whiting, a species you may not have worked with before. Time to get adventurous with this delicious recipe!
Featured Species - Whiting
In New York, whiting ranks as one the top fish in terms of volume in NY commercial markets and is especially plentiful during the winter season. It's meat is mild, slightly sweet and has a softer flesh than other whitefish such as cod, haddock and pollock. Whiting is an inexpensive local seafood option compared to some other species.
From the NOAA Fisheries website:
There is little to no separation of silver hake and offshore hake in the market, and both are generally sold under the name “whiting.” The whiting fishery in the United States operates from Maine to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Along with red hake, whiting are part of the small-mesh multispecies fishery, which is managed primarily through a series of exemptions from the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (or groundfish fishery). The directed commercial fishery is conducted with small-mesh trawl gear with a number of specific requirements to reduce bycatch of larger groundfish species. There are two stocks of silver hake (northern and southern), and one stock of offshore hake, which primarily co-occurs with the southern stock of silver hake. The market for small-mesh multispecies is human consumption and as bait. U.S. wild-caught whiting is a smart seafood choice because it is sustainably managed and responsibly harvested under U.S. regulations (NOAA Fisheries).
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