Brunswick Catch

I wanted to point out a recent “grove project” I was involved in setting up with my friend Scott Baker at Sea Grant / UNCW Center for Marine Sciences: Brunswick Catch is a program that helps our fisherman, seafood dealers, and restaurants promote local fishing and locally harvested seafood.

Modeled after Carteret Catch, and with the assistance of Brunswick County Economic Development Commission, Brunswick County Commissioners, and North Carolina Sea Grant, Brunswick Catch is already making some waves locally, with feature articles, signs and stickers showing up in seafood dealers’ windows, lots of questions and interest.

In my limited experience with the site and the program, it can be really challenging to get all these small, local fisherman working together. But the time is right for local. And certainly on the consumer side there’s a lot of interest in “locavore” eating, in one’s own “food shed”, in healthy seafood. And the graphics they had developed for the program — with the 30’s worker block-fisted woodcut look — are just fantastic.