Local Seafood Matters

What’s on Your Plate Shapes the Bay

Choosing local seafood is one of the most direct ways to keep Monterey Bay's fishing community alive.

It takes a village to make sustainable seafood in Monterey Bay possible — commercial fishermen and women, fish processors and delivery drivers, marine mechanics and chefs, harbormasters and scientists. Local seafood is the thread that connects them all. Here's what that thread holds together.

Food & Community
Fishermen & Economy
Future & Resilience
A sign for a fish market with two red fish images and the text 'FRESH FISH SOLD HERE WHOLESALE TO THE PUBLIC' on a blue background, mounted on a weathered building with corrugated metal siding and red trim.
Several boats docked at a marina on calm water with a clear blue sky.
Several cooked crabs with orange and brown shells on a blue surface.