This article was originally published in ' UC Santa Barbara Magazine '.
With skill and precision, Get Hooked Seafood workers fillet and slice the 600 pounds of fresh vermilion rockfish sustainably caught just that morning in the Santa Barbara Channel. The fish is being prepared for delivery to the customers who subscribe to Get Hooked Seafood’s delivery service.
“The benefits of eating fish are so profound,” says Kim Selkoe, Ph.D., ’05, Get Hooked’s CEO. “The foods we’re harvesting from the ocean are packed with nutrients in a way most of those grown on land no longer have because of depleted soils.”