Eat Fresher Fish. Support Our Local Fishing Industry.
Welcome to Week 10 of our Community Supported Fishery (CSF)! We are 10 weeks into our Fall Session, which lasts a total of 16 weeks.
NH FILM FESTIVAL FEATURES TWO FISHING INDUSTRY DOCUMENTARIES!!
THURSDAY AND SUNDAY 3:30 pm- featuring our NH fishermen!
See the entire schedule here: https://nhfilmfestival.com/schedule
Our Catch of the Week is Monkfish and our Shellfish offering will be Scallops. We have been hearing rave reviews about the Mussels. We hope you enjoyed yours, drop us a line and let us know, the Fishermen are asking for feedback!
Monkfish is plentiful and abundant in NH and one of the few fish our Fishermen have excess amounts of quota to catch, which is why we serve it up more regularly.
CATCH OF THE WEEK-MONKFISH
Monkfish and Pollock onboard the F/V Heidi & Elisabeth
Once caught as by-catch by trawlers and gillnetters, Monkfish have quickly become one of the world's most popular fish. In the west, usually just the tail meat is eaten, but 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 distinct and 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 a 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 a 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.
RESTAURANT SUPPORTED FISHERY
We have a convenient Hold and Double system for your convenience as part of your Membership! On weeks you will be away OR don't care for the fish offering, you can HOLD your share here. Instructions are given.
ADDITIONAL FISH WEEKLY
HADDOCK AVAILABLE WEEKLY, DISCOUNTED PRICES, ORDER HERE.
EXTRA CATCH OF THE WEEK AVAILABLE , ORDER HERE.
DEADLINE TO ORDER ADDITIONAL FISH IS MONDAY, 12 midnight FOR THE WEEK OF YOUR DELIVERY!
MEMBERSHIP QUESTIONS?
Please email enrica@nhcommunityseafood.com with any and all Membership questions pertaining to your account. This includes using your credit to order an Add on, Kendall can assist!
PAYMENTS
If you haven't already done so, please send us a check for your balance to: NHCS, 1 Peirce Island Rd, Portsmouth, NH 03801. If you send a check, it saves us the 3% charge from Paypal! If you choose to pay online with a credit or debit card, do it here.
THANK YOU
Thank you for your support in our Fall Session and for supporting our local fisheries! Enjoy your Monkfish and Scallops!
All the best,
1 Peirce Island Rd-Portsmouth-NH-03801
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Our Local Fishing Industry.
Local Scallops next week for our Biweekly Shellfish Share! We offer local Shellfish every other week to our Members! Order here for delivery with your fish share.
Biweekly Shellfish Members: Share is 1lb, order extra here!
20-30 scallops/lb for $20 for 1lb and a discounted $90 for 5 lbs!
Order here by Monday night to get your Scallops next week with your fish! You must be fully paid for your Fish share to order! Use your debit or credit card to pay, it's easy.
Thanks for supporting our local NH Fisheries!
We appreciate your business,
1 Peirce Island Rd-Portsmouth-NH-03801
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Our Local Fishing Industry.
Dear %%user-name%%,
Welcome to Week 9 of our Community Supported Fishery (CSF) Fall Session! The Catch of the Week is Acadian Redfish and our special Add on is Mussels, raised in the open ocean, by fishermen from Portsmouth, Pete Flanagan and Vinny Prien.
I am writing you today from the Localcatch.org Seafood Summit, in Portland, Oregon, where we are gathered with Community Supported Fisheries from around the country! It's been a great experience, and due to the west coast time change, I am just now able to get to the newsletter, sorry for the delay.
CATCH OF THE WEEK-ACADIAN REDFISH
Our fish this week is the Acadian Redfish, otherwise called "Red Perch" or as seen in many local Market Basket chains, "Ocean Perch". Often times, this fish is substituted for the tropical fish, Red Snapper. This is our northern Atlantic Grouper species! This big eyed fish looks like a tropical fish from the islands. A member of the Rockfish (Grouper) family, the Redfish is a deep water, goggle eyed, slow-growing fish that spans from Norway to Georges Bank in our Atlantic Ocean.
Not to be confused with Red Snapper, a southern species down south, the Redfish births live young (very rare with fish) and can live to be up to 50 years old! This species, once thought of as by-catch or lobster bait, is quickly becoming one of the more popular fish in the US, especially here in New England!
KNOW YOUR FISHERMEN
Here are five Gulf of Maine fish that provide an opportunity to support local fishermen, promote a healthy ecosystem, and eat a delicious meal:
Whether cooking at home or ordering out, conscientious shoppers often face difficult choices. But when it comes to seafood, there are plenty of fish you can feel good about eating.
COOKING INSTRUCTIONS
Redfish cooked over local vegetables (Courtesy CSF Member Breeda Lagan Royer)
Redfish fillets are thin and have the skin on. All the good Omega-3's are in the skin! Cook these fillets for just a few minutes, on each side if frying, grilling or sauteing! Season overnight for full flavor.
Click here for our recipes for Redfish our Pinterest Page or here for recipes on our blog, complete with videos.
SHELLFISH ADD ONS and BIWEEKLY SHARES
RESTAURANT SUPPORTED FISHERY
We work with Three River Farmers Alliance to reach a wide variety of Restaurants, Retailers and Institutions for our RSF program.
HOW TO HOLD YOUR SHARE/CHANGE PICK UP
We offer a flexible "hold system" for weeks you will be away or do not care for the Catch of the Week selection. You can Hold and Double your share for a week here. Instructions are provided. Email us if you need assistance!
You can also do a Temporary Pick up location change at the same site. Just select this from the drop down menu and choose your Pick up location change for the week. We have 22 Pickups to choose from here.
MEMBERSHIP QUESTIONS: Please email our wonderful Assistant Manager, Enrica at [email protected]
ADDITIONAL FISH WEEKLY
Each week, we offer the opportunity for Members to order extra Catch of the Week fish and/or extra Haddock.
Get your Additional Haddock or Redfish, order here, please order by tonight at 12pm!
Orders are available in 1lb bags and discounted on all orders over 2 lbs!
PAYMENTS $$$
You do not have to be paid in full to begin receiving your share! We work on the trust system. If you haven't already done so, please send us a check for your balance to: NHCS, 1 Peirce Island Rd, Portsmouth, NH 03801. If you send a check, it saves us the 3% charge from Paypal! If you choose to pay online with a credit or debit card, do it here.
THANK YOU
All the best,
1 Peirce Island Rd-Portsmouth-NH-03801
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Our Local Fishing Industry.
Dear %%user-firstname%%,
Thank you for your 8-week Membership this Fall! You may now extend your Membership for another 8 weeks as of today HERE, just sign up by Monday at midnight!
Please disregard this message if you have already extended!
You will be signing up for a prorated 16 week Membership, which is essentially another 8-weeks. We will continue to deliver to your Pick up location until November 30.
Then, in December, we do a Holiday Seafood Medley share for 4 weeks, complete with 4 different types of local seafood, one each week.
Hope to see you back with us soon!
NH Community Seafood
1 Peirce Island Rd-Portsmouth-NH-03801
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Our Local Fishing Industry.
Dear %%user-firstname%%,
We are so excited about being able to finally offer Mussels from Isle of Shoals Mariculture, LLC, owned by two former Groundfishermen out of Portsmouth, NH, Pete Flanagan and Vinny Prien (pictured above).
Order here for pick up with your fish next week! You must be paid in full for your Fish and/or Shellfish share to order Add ons.
This is a long awaited Add on, grown in the open ocean off Rye Harbor, all natural and sustainable!
Mussels come in bags of 5lb for just $22.50 for Members.
Thanks for your support for our local fisheries,
NH Community Seafood
1 Peirce Island Rd-Portsmouth-NH-03801
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Our Local Fishing Industry.
We are pleased to announce that we will are finally able to offer the only cultured mussels, grown in NH by NH Fishermen, Pete Flanagan and Vinny Prien, owners of Isle of Shoals Mariculture, LLC as Add ons next week!
Click here to order, while supplies last!
Check out this article about their start at UNH with Cooperative Extension and NH Sea Grant.
Pete and Vinny have been growing mussels sustainably on lines, 3 miles off Rye, NH for over 4 years and are finally making their first big harvest! We are so pleased we are able to get some of these gems!
These mussels are grown in the open ocean, taste fantastic and are meticulously processed !
Mussels will come in 5lb bags and will just $22.50/bag for Members only.
Order here while supplies last! Thanks for supporting our local fishing industry!
Happy to be offering these,
NH Community Seafood
1 Peirce Island Rd-Portsmouth-NH-03801
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Our Local Fishing Industry.
Dear %%user-firstname%%,
Thank you for your 8-week Membership this Fall! You may now extend your Membership for another 8 weeks as of today HERE.
You will be signing up for a prorated 16 week Membership, which is essentially another 8-weeks. We will continue to deliver to your Pick up location until November 30.
Then, in December, we do a Holiday Seafood Medley share for 4 weeks, complete with 4 different types of local seafood, one each week.
Hope to see you back with us soon!
NH Community Seafood
1 Peirce Island Rd-Portsmouth-NH-03801
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Our Local Fishing Industry.
Dear %%user-name%%,
Welcome to Week 8 of our Fall Session of our Community Supported Fishery! And welcome to all our new Members and former Members who have signed up this week.
EXTENDING YOUR 8-WEEK MEMBERSHIP
For our 8 week Members: IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND YOUR MEMBERSHIP, look for an invite email tomorrow! In order for you to get the correct proration, you have to wait until tomorrow to extend! Fall Session goes until November 30, for a full 16 weeks.
The Catch of the Week is King Whiting, a first for us all season! Thanks to the F/V Heidi & Elisabeth, Portsmouth, NH for this week's local catch!
Lobster orders are extended until tonight, at midnight: Order here for this week!
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CATCH OF THE WEEK-KING WHITING
The King's get their name from their large size, these are the biggest and best of the bunch! The smaller Whiting are sold as whole fish to ethnic markets in Boston and New York and sometimes straight up to Toronto, Canada!
This whitefish is a member of the Hake family, commonly known as Silver Hake. King Whiting live in both the northern and southern Atlantic. Our northern stock of King Whiting lives throughout the Gulf of Maine to the northern reaches of Georges Bank. King Whiting are important species in the ocean ecosystem as they act as both predator and prey, moving up and down throughout the water column to feed at night and resting on the muddy, sandy or pebbly bottom in the day (when they become prey!). King Whiting are a grayish- silver color on the back, with a distinctive black lateral line and white speckles. They also have an impressive jaw and full set of razor sharp teeth!
KNOW YOUR FISHERMEN
Our Fishermen this week are the crew on the F/V Heidi & Elisabeth, Portsmouth, NH. Captain Jamie Hayward, Chris White and Josh Byrne, along with landside crew Ward Byrne, make up the Heidi & Elisabeth crew at the Portsmouth Commercial Fishing Pier.
The F/V Heidi & Elisabeth, coming into Portsmouth Harbor
The daily catch on a recent trip for the F/V Heidi & Elisabeth
COOKING INSTRUCTIONS
King Whiting's flesh is softer than that of cod or pollock and is not as flaky. The fillets are thick and firm.
The taste is moderate with a hint of sweet flavor. You can substitute the Whiting in any recipe that calls for cod, haddock or pollock. The fillets we provide are thick and meaty and easily seasoned or marinated. The fillets will come with the skin on and that adds both flavor and the important omega-3 fatty acids! Here's a link to our new Pinterest Page for a bunch of fantastic Whiting (aka Hake) recipes: https://www.pinterest.com/nhcsf/hake-recipes/ or see our blog here for videos and recipes: https://nhcommunityseafoodblog.wordpress.com/?s=king+whiting
Seared Hake from our Pinterest Recipe Page
Remember, 10 minutes per inch of thickness is how long to cook any fish!
SHELLFISH ADD ONS and BIWEEKLY SHARES
Lobsters this week from our Portsmouth Lobstermen Josh Ford, F/V Restless and Damon Frampton, F/V Vivian Mae!
ORDERS EXTENDED TO MONDAY NIGHT, ORDER HERE!
RESTAURANT SUPPORTED FISHERY
HOW TO HOLD YOUR SHARE/CHANGE PICK UP
We offer a flexible "hold system" for weeks you will be away or do not care for the Catch of the Week selection. You can Hold and Double your share for a week here. Instructions are provided. Email us if you need assistance!
You can also do a Temporary Pick up location change at the same site. Just select this from the drop down menu and choose your Pick up location change for the week. We have 22 Pickups to choose from here.
ADDITIONAL FISH WEEKLY
Each week, we offer the opportunity for Members to order extra Catch of the Week fish and/or extra Haddock. Get your Additional Haddock here, please order by tonight at 12pm!
Orders are available in 1lb bags and discounted on all orders over 2 lbs!
PAYMENTS $$$
You do not have to be paid in full to begin receiving your share! We work on the trust system. If you haven't already done so, please send us a check for your balance to: NHCS, 1 Peirce Island Rd, Portsmouth, NH 03801. If you send a check, it saves us the 3% charge from Paypal! If you choose to pay online with a credit or debit card, do it here.
THANK YOU
Thank you for supporting our Community Supported Fishery and our few remaining Fishermen in New Hampshire. We are proud of our Fishermen and our NH Fishing Heritage. Thank you for supporting the future of this dying industry!
Enjoy your King Whiting and Lobster this week and thank you again!
All the best,
1 Peirce Island Rd-Portsmouth-NH-03801
1 Peirce Island Rd-Portsmouth-NH-03801
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Our Local Fishing Industry.
Hello 8-week Members,
Our Fall Session goes until November 30, another 8 weeks! If you would like to extend your Membership, I will send out and "extension email" tomorrow. We have a sensitive software system and it will not calculate your proration properly if you do it before tomorrow!
Thanks for you support and look for that email tomorrow!
Thanks,
NH Community Seafood
1 Peirce Island Rd-Portsmouth-NH-03801
Eat Fresher Fish. Support Our Local Fishing Industry.
Dear %%user-firstname%%,
We are extending our lobster Add on cut off day to today! Order here.
Spoiler alert: Catch of the Week is King Whiting!
Add ons are available as single orders (or multiples thereof) or a discounted order of 6 chix.
Biweekly Shellfish Share is 2 chix lobsters for our Shellfish Members.
All lobsters will be locally caught and landed by our Lobstermen partners in Portsmouth!
Plan your lobster dinner today! Thanks for your continued support for our local Fishing industry!
Best,
Andrea Tomlinson
General Manager
1 Peirce Island Rd-Portsmouth-NH-03801
