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Eat Fresher Fish. Support Your Fishing Community.
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- Session 1 May 1 - August 14.
- Session 2 August 16 - November 27
- Holiday Seafood Medley Session December 6 - December 31.
- 2lb Share (formerly called "Full" Share)
- 1lb Share (formerly called "Half" Share)
- 1/2lb Share (formerly called "Quarter"Share)
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nhcommunityseafood@gmail.com
Andrea Tomlinson
Manager, New Hampshire Community Seafood
(603) 767-7209
NH Community Seafood
Community Supported Fishery
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Your Fishing Community.
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Week 4, Premier Fish- Grey Sole Fillet
It's our final week of the Holiday Seafood Medley Session and NH Community Seafood's final week of the season. Thank you all for participating in this unique blend of NH's freshest seafood for the Holiday Season. We will surely feature this again next year.
Our Community Supported Fishery (CSF) season will begin again next spring. We will be bringing you local fish and other Add On items, like the variety of shellfish we featured this session.
Look for a sign up email notification in March 2016 to become a Member of NH's only cooperatively owned CSF!
Our "Premier Fish" for this Holiday Session is Grey (or Torbay) sole, otherwise known as Witch Flounder. Common throughout the Gulf of Maine, the Grey Sole is known for it's high quality texture and small, delicately flavored fillets.
Your sole fillets will be from 2-4 ounces each and delicate and thin. They will cook quickly so be cautious not to overcook. Here are some great recipes, including Crab Meat Stuffed Sole, as seen above: https://www.pinterest.com/aquanor/grey-sole-recipes/.
Thank you to President of NH Community Seafood's Board of Directors and our Lobsterman for this Session, Damon Frampton, Captain of F/V Vivian May of Portsmouth, for providing us with live NH lobsters Week 2 and the Fresh Lobster Meat and Lobster Ravioli all Season.
NH Community Seafood President and Lobsterman, Damon Frampton (left) and Sternman
F/V Vivian May landed all our Lobster this Season
Thank you again for your patronage and for supporting our local NH Fishing Industry for 2015! We look forward to seeing you next year! Until then...
All the Best in the New Year and Peace on Earth,
Andrea
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nhcommunityseafood@gmail.com
Andrea Tomlinson
Manager, New Hampshire Community Seafood
(603) 767-7209
NH Community Seafood
Community Supported Fishery
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Your Fishing Community.
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Hello Holiday Seafood Medley Members,
Our final week of deliveries is next week, which is already Christmas Week! Here are the changes for pick up times by location:
Manchester and Exeter- usually Thursdays, moved to Wednesday, December 23, same times
Peterborough- usually Friday, moved to Wednesday, December 23, same times
Dover, Durham, Portsmouth- usually Friday, moved to Thursday, December 24, coolers will be there as early as NOON at Durham and Dover and as early as 230pm at Porstmouth!
Happy Holidays and thanks for making it local, NH Seafood for the Season!!
With tidings of comfort and joy,
Andrea
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nhcommunityseafood@gmail.com
Andrea Tomlinson
Manager, New Hampshire Community Seafood
(603) 767-7209
NH Community Seafood
Community Supported Fishery
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Your Fishing Community.
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It's Oyster Week!
Hello Holiday Seafood Medley Members,
Are we having fun yet? We are loving being able to provide you all with this great variety of the freshest seafood NH has to offer for the Holiday through NH's Only Community Supported Fishery!
This week, we will feature oysters grown right here in New Hampshire, in Great Bay! Your oysters will be harvested the night before your pick up, so it doesn't get any fresher than that!
Our oysters this week come from my former co-worker and friend, Brian Gennaco, owner of Virgin Oyster Company in Dover. We also received oysters from Wagon Hill Oysters, owned by former colleagues and long time UNH professors, Researchers and oyster farmer experts, Dr. Ray Grizzle and Dr. David Berlinsky (also a fish aquaculturist).
Brian Gennaco and his wife, Sarah Dr. Ray Grizzle
Most people know about eating oysters raw on the halfshell, but they can also be cooked, smoked, fried, used in soups and chowders and mixed in with a variety of other seafood in recipes! Here are some great for your oysters:https://www.pinterest.com/explore/oyster-recipes/.
For Christmas week, we have some adjustments to some of our pick ups:
Manchester: Moved to Wednesday, same times
Exeter: Moved to Wednesday, same times
Peterborough: Moved to Wednesday, same times
All other Friday Pick Ups, Dover, Durham and Portsmouth:
Moved to Thursday, same times
Our premier fish for next week, weather dependent of course, will be Grey Sole! So you can plan your Christmas week fish dinner now!
Happy Holidays and thanks for making it Seafood for the Season!
With Wishes of Peace and Joy,
Andrea
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nhcommunityseafood@gmail.com
Andrea Tomlinson
Manager, New Hampshire Community Seafood
(603) 767-7209
NH Community Seafood
Community Supported Fishery
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Your Fishing Community.
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LIVE LOBSTER WEEK 2
Welcome to Week 2 of our Holiday Seafood Medley Session! Your lobsters will be live and banded at the claws, freshly caught this week. Your share consists of 2 live lobsters. At most pick up locations, we will have a volunteer there to help you bag your crustaceans. We do have some pick up locations that will be self serve, with bags provided and lobsters on gelpack ice in our coolers.
For our adventurous and hopefully willing members, our self-serve pick ups this week are:
Applecrest Farm- Tuesday 2:30-6:30pm
Farmer Dave's, Dracut, Ma-Tuesday, 4-7pm, (Reminder: BROX HILL FARM TODAY, then to PARKER RD last two weeks)
Brasen Hill Farm,Thursday, 11:30-4:30 staff there to assist, after 4:30pm, will be self serve
Durham- Friday, 2-6pm
We all know how to commonly prepare these beloved creatures, but here are some other great holiday recipe ideas for your lobsters, including the New England favorite, Baked Stuffed Lobster: https://www.pinterest.com/travelmedia/lobster-recipes-festivals-more/
And don't forget about our Add Ons for the rest of the Session! You can order Portsmouth Lobster Company's Lobster Ravioli or Fresh Picked Lobster Tail, Claw and Knuckle Meat as an extra treat for your Holiday Seafood dinners!
Try one of these Member- only Shellfish Add Ons for next week! Just get your order in by Sunday at 9pm for delivery at your pick up location with your oyster share!
Enjoy your lobsters and please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.
Thanks for making it fresh and local Seafood for the Holiday!
With Holiday Wishes for Peace and Joy,
Andrea
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nhcommunityseafood@gmail.com
Andrea Tomlinson
Manager, New Hampshire Community Seafood
(603) 767-7209
NH Community Seafood
Community Supported Fishery
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Your Fishing Community.
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MAKE IT LOBSTER FOR THE HOLIDAYS, we have a variety of choices:
Lobster Ravioli Fresh Picked Lobster Meat
12 oz bag, for just $15 Tail, claw and knuckle, just $53/lb
We are delighted to offer you two delicious Lobster Shellfish Add Ons for our Holiday Session! Both items, brought to us by Portsmouth Lobster Company, are available to be picked up with your Holiday Share all month.
Our lobster meat is direct off the boat, caught and picked by our NH Lobstermen! Great for making lobster rolls, seafood salad and just about any recipe that calls for lobster!
Sign up here, and pay with a credit card or debit card. Remember, you must be fully paid for your Holiday Medley Share to order these Add Ons.
ORDER BY SUNDAY at 9pm to receive your Add On the following week with your share!
Enjoy the Holidays! And thanks for making it local, NH Seafood!
New Hampshire Community Seafood
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nhcommunityseafood@gmail.com
Andrea Tomlinson
Manager, New Hampshire Community Seafood
(603) 767-7209
NH Community Seafood
Community Supported Fishery
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Your Fishing Community.
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It's Week 1, Scallop Week! Thank you for your order!
Our scallops are fresh and just landed and average 40-50 scallops/lb. Your share for this week is a 3/4lb bag of scallops bagged in a clear unlabeled bag. Shares will be kept on ice in coolers at your pick up location, which will be operating on the same times as we did for our CSF fish pick ups! This is how they will look:
Scallops can be cooked in a number of ways, broiled, baked or sauteed. Wrapped in bacon, they are delicious! Here are some great ideas for scallop recipes:https://www.pinterest.com/thesneak50/scallops-recipes/.
Our Fisherman for the Scallops is long time Portsmouth Ground Fisherman and Scallop Fisherman Jeremy Davis of the F/V Karen Lynn I. Thanks to Jeremy and his crew for providing us with the freshest scallops in NH!
The F/V Karen Lynn I, landing our Scallops for this Week
And as a reminder, our upcoming weeks for this seafood extravaganza look like this:
Week 2: (Dec 8-11): Lobsters, 2-1lb/share, Don't forget,the lobsters are live. We will have someone at your pick up location to assist you in bagging your share. Lobster bags will be provided.
Week 3 (Dec 15-18): Oysters, 1 dozen/share
Week 4 (Dec 22-24): Premier Fish, 1 lb/share The prospects for this "premier fish" are: grey sole, halibut or cod. It will depend on that supply that week!
Thanks again for signing up for this first time event from NH Community Seafood! It is our last session for the season and it will provide our NH Fishing Community with continued support right into the New Year!
Enjoy your scallops and Happy Holidays!
All the best,
Andrea
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nhcommunityseafood@gmail.com
Andrea Tomlinson
Manager, New Hampshire Community Seafood
(603) 767-7209
NH Community Seafood
Community Supported Fishery
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Your Fishing Community.
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Hello Session 4 CSF Members,
We are in our final week of our last 6-week Session for the Season. We have purchased close to 40,000 pounds of fish from our NH Fishermen this year, through our incentive buyer program, that has put an extra $10,000 into the hands of our local Fishing Community. Thank you to all of you who have been CSF Members this year and years past!
DECK THE HALLS WITH PLATES OF SEAFOOD THIS HOLIDAY!!
We are anxiously anticipating our First Annual Holiday Seafood Medley Session for the month of December, which will feature a variety of diverse locally sourced NH seafood such as scallops, oysters, lobsters and a premier fish. For a one time price of $70 for the four weeks you will receive "one share". See our website for details. You can order multiple shares for you and your family and friends to share! You do not have to be a former Member to sign up for this session, so please tell your friends, family, neighbors and co-workers about this exciting Seafood Medley Session.
We will also be offering our popular Lobster Ravioli AND Fresh lobster tail and claw meat as Shellfish Add Ons for our Holiday Medley Session! Don't miss this great month of all NH's waters have to offer for the Holiday!
It is also with great pleasure, that we offer our Grand Finale Fish for the Season, the much protected, but not unattainable Atlantic cod, scientifically called Gadus morhua.
Due to drastic cuts in the federally mandated catch allotment for cod in the past 5 years, many of our NH ground fishermen have either left the industry for alternative work or turned to lobstering. Cod catch allotments have been reduced to a mere 3% of the former amounts. Once plentiful and abundant in our New England waters, cod was a New England staple and our signature fish. "In Cod We Trust" was the motto of fishermen here for centuries.
Cod became regionally popular as early as the 1600's here in New England. However, over the past hundred years, there has been an international demand for all forms of cod, including the age old "salted cod", which keeps for up to a year and is used widely all over the world in a variety of cuisines. With this increased demand in cod and an ever increasing world population, came a severely overfished and poorly regulated fishery.
Since 2000, cod stocks have been on the dramatic decline and this has redefined the fishing industry in New England as a whole. Our once thriving NH fishing fleet is now down to no more than 9 active boats, throughout the entire Seacoast! Our fishermen have been purposely avoiding cod all season this year, due to the strict limits on the catch allotment, which would have forced them to stop fishing altogether, for all species. Once they catch the total cod allotment for the year, they have to stop fishing.
Most of the cod you have seen lately for sale in our area has been coming in frozen from Iceland and Norway, as cod migrate north and flourish in those waters, with less restrictive limitations on the fishery.
So, it is with great anticipation that we offer once again, this longtime King of Atlantic. Our Fishermen this week is Ricky Anderson, Captain of the F/V Bridget Leigh. Ricky is one of the last NH groundfishermen who is still out gillnet fishing this season! Thanks Ricky for letting us have this treat as our last fish of the season!
Captain Ricky Anderson of the F/V Bridget Leigh
Cod is great cooked any way: baked, broiled, sautéed, grilled or steamed. It's also very popular in New England Fish Chowder. Remember the cardinal rule for cooking any fish; 10 minutes per inch of fillet thickness, any way you cook it. Here are some great recipe ideas for cod, including some New England favorites:http://allrecipes.com/recipes/418/seafood/fish/cod/.
Baked Cod Fillets on White Bean and Cherry Tomato Stew
If you haven't tried our Shellfish Add ons yet, you should! Many of our members have taken advantage of these Member Only Shellfish treats in the form of our Lobster Ravioli, from Portsmouth Lobster Company. The 12 oz. bags have 10 huge raviolis with Gulf of Maine caught lobster and cost just $15! Orders are preordered and must be placed by Monday at 9pm the week of pick up!
NOW, for LOGISTICS:
VOLUNTEERING WITH US:
Handing out Live Lobsters for Holiday Medley Share-Week 2 (Dec. 8-Dec 11) - We will be delivering our lobsters in totes, on ice and alive to each pick up location. We will therefore need volunteers to bag and hand out lobsters at the following locations:
- Farmer Dave's, Dracut, MA - Tuesday, Dec. 8 from 4-7 pm
- Applecrest Farm, Hampton Falls- Tuesday, Dec. 8 from 2:30-6:30pm
- Cole Gardens, Route 9/Loudon Rd, Concord- Thursday, Dec 10 from 2-5pm
- Dover Natural Foods, Chesnut Street, Dover- Friday, Dec. 11 from 3-6pm
If this is your pick up location and you could help out on this day, please let me know by email or text or call. All my contact information is below! Thanks!
Like us on Facebook and we are on Twitter too! Both these sites aim to inform and educate the public on local fishing industry news and updates! You can learn a lot in a week's worth of posts from us!
And don't forget about all our great restaurants in our Restaurant Supported Fishery (RSF) Program, these innovative chefs are buying our fish until Christmas! So you can support our local fishing industry by dining out with them and ordering NH Community Seafood fish from:
- Black Trumpet, 29 Ceres Street, Portsmouth, NH
- Local Eatery, 21 Veterans Square, Laconia, NH
- Hayseed Restaurant, Smuttynose Brewing Co., Hampton, NH
- The Hancock Inn, 33 Main Street, Hancock, NH
- Moxy, 106 Penhallow Street, Portsmouth, NH
- Vida Cantina, 2456 Lafayette Rd, Portsmouth, NH
- Jumpin' Jays Fish Cafe, 150 Congress Street, Portsmouth, NH
- Blue Moon Evolution, 8 Clifford Street, Exeter,NH
- One Hundred Club, 100 Market Street, #500, Portsmouth, NH
- 7th Settlement, 47 Washington Street Dover, NH
- Monadnock Food Coop, 34 Cypress St, Keene, NH
It's been a great Season and I have enjoyed providing you with a variety of different fish, many of them new to our Members for the first time! And the Shellfish Add Ons were a lot of fun to provide as well! It has been a pleasure working with our fishermen, lobstermen and my oyster growing friends as well as all our members and watching us make a change in our local fishing community!
Thank you for your patronage and support and all your kind words, suggestions and volunteer help this past Season. I look forward to leading NH Community Seafood ahead as NH's only Community Supported Fishery! Our NH Fishing Community will continue to need support as we face new challenges and regulations in 2016.
Enjoy the cod and I hope to see you back for the Holiday Seafood Medley Session! If not then, next Spring!
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
All the best,
Andrea
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nhcommunityseafood@gmail.com
Andrea Tomlinson
Manager, New Hampshire Community Seafood
(603) 767-7209
NH Community Seafood
Community Supported Fishery
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Your Fishing Community.
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Hello NH Seafood Supporters,
As our 2015 Community Supported Fishery (CSF) Season is coming to a close, we are pleased to announce the First Annual Holiday Seafood Medley Share from NH Community Seafood for the month of December!
We are delighted to offer you this diverse variety of NH-caught, seasonal seafood for you to use to dazzle your friends and family for the Holidays!
Here's how it works:
You pay one low price of $70 for four weeks of the following:
Week 1 (Dec 1- 4): Sea Scallops- 3/4 lb
Week 2 (Dec 8-11): Live Lobsters- 2-1 lb lobsters
Week 3 (Dec 15-18): Oysters- 1 dozen
Week 4 (Dec 22-24): Premier Fish- 1 lb fillet
The above is considered "one 4-week share". You can order multiple shares for the month.
We will also feature our ever popular Portsmouth Lobster Company Lobster Ravioli as well as Fresh Lobster Tail and Claw Meat by the pound as our Shellfish Add-Ons for the session!
We will deliver our Holiday Shares fresh daily to our 16 pick up locations throughout NH and one in Dracut, Mass.
Sign up here and reserve your share today! And tell your friends and family! This is our last opportunity for the year to extend our support to our NH Fishing Community and take advantage of the variety of local seafood New Hampshire has to offer!
Sign ups will close on November 30. You can pay online or send a check! It's that easy!
Thank you for your support! We look forward to bringing you some of the best local NH seafood available for this Season!
Happy Holidays to You,
Andrea
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nhcommunityseafood@gmail.com
Andrea Tomlinson
Manager, New Hampshire Community Seafood
(603) 767-7209
NH Community Seafood
Community Supported Fishery
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Your Fishing Community.
Hello Local Seafood Supporters,
We are winding down our Season and still continue to provide you with fresh, locally caught NH and Gulf of Maine Seafood from our local boats to your plate. It's the "Fish to Dish" movement and we are leading the way here in NH with one of 50 Community Supported Fisheries (CSF) throughout the country!
We are also gearing up for our Holiday Medley Session for the month of December, which will feature each week one of the following locally caught delicacies: scallops, live lobsters, oysters and a premier fish. Sign ups will be enabled this week for this exciting first time Seafood smorgasbord for the Holiday!
This week's Catch of the Week is the Monkfish. Formerly caught as by-catch in otter trawls and gillnets, monkfish have quickly become one of the world's most popular fish. In the west, usually just the tail meat is eaten, but in there is a large market for whole monkfish in Asian countries. Also known as "Poor Man's Lobster", monkfish tail meat has both the consistency and distinct taste of this famous crustacean. If you like lobster, you'll love monkfish! And if you don't like lobster, the firm, white fillet when cooked also tastes like a sweetened fish. The flesh is a purplish-brownish color when raw and turns white once cooked.
Not at all attractive on the outside, monkfish should not be judged by their outward appearance! They are brownish color mottled with white spots on top and white on the underbelly. Their habitat spans from the Grand Banks and northern Gulf of St. Lawrence along the Atlantic shoreline south to Cape Hatteras, NC. Monkfish are voracious predators. They lurk on the sandy, muddy bottom and lure their prey with the spiny extension on their head. This "lure" attracts the prey, like bait on fishing line, bringing the victim close in for the lunge of the monkfish. The unusually broad mouth , adapted to swallow whole fish, shrimp and squid, is lined with layers of stubby white teeth.
Cook monkfish as you would any other fish, and remember the cardinal rule, 10 minutes an inch! The monkfish "fillets" are wide and thick, because they are the tail meat. Marinating the tails and seasoning before cooking adds to the flavor. Baked, sauteed, broiled, roasted or grilled, these tails are fantastic!
Here are some great recipe ideas for monkfish: https://www.pinterest.com/fishisthedish/monkfish-recipes/.
Or try it in a kebab, with herb marinated monktail:
Our NH Fishermen for this week are gillnetters Ricky Anderson of the F/V Bridget Leigh and Jamie Hayward of the F/V Heidi Elisabeth. Both these fishermen are day boat fishing and landing their catch in Seabrook and Portsmouth, NH. Thanks for the great monkfish guys!
Captain Rick Anderson of F/V Bridget Leigh
Captain Jamie Hayward of the F/V Heidi Elisabeth
Need some extra fish one week for that family get together or this weekend's dinner party? You can freeze our fish for up to six months and it will maintain its integrity in the freezer! We continue to offer an Additional Fish Feature on the Member Log In page. Just choose from our 1lb increments how much extra fish you would like, pay online and the fish will be delivered with your regular share!
Did you know it's Restaurant Week in Portsmouth through this Saturday, November 14? Participating restaurants offer special three course prix fix menus at two unbelievable prices: $16.95 for lunch or $29.95 for dinner per person. Some restaurants extend the $16.95 value price to dinner as well. Be sure to review each restaurant’s menu.
Some of the participating Restaurants buy our fish and will be serving it all week! Please, if you are going to take advantage of this special event, remember the following great establishments have fresh, NH caught fish from our Restaurant Supported Fishery (RSF) program:
LOGISTICS:
VOLUNTEERING WITH US:
Holiday Share Session: We STILL need volunteers to orchestrate the first ever Holdiay Seafood Medley Session. Because we will be handling live lobsters, there will be more logistics involved. If you can help with any aspect, labelling bags, handing out lobsters at your pick up or just promoting this session in your community, please contact me via text, phone call or email! Each self-help pick up location will need a live body for our live lobster week!
Social Media: Like us on Facebook, WE LIKE TO BE LIKED! We are a few likes short of 2000 likes..invite your friends to like us! So PLEASE, if you love Facebook, invite your friends to view our page and please post your pictures and recipe ideas! We are on Twitter and Instagram too! Retweet our tweets and spread the word!
Thanks again for your continued support! We are happy to be able to provide you with fresh, NH caught seafood right up until the end of the year!
One pound at a time, one dinner at a time, we are making a difference in the livelihood of our NH Fishing Community!
Enjoy the Monkfish and try one of our supporting restaurants at Restaurant Week in Portsmouth this week!
All the best,
Andrea
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nhcommunityseafood@gmail.com
Andrea Tomlinson
Manager, New Hampshire Community Seafood
(603) 767-7209