Santa Barbara's First Sustainable Seafood Market featured in Huffington Post

Santa Barbara's best kept secret was featured in the Huffington Post Food Blog today. Farm to Fork Across America blogger, Julie Ann Fineman spent a day with Kanaloa Seafood and wrote about Santa Barbara's only (and America's first) ISO 14001 certified seafood company and our environmentally responsible practices:

Don and Randee enjoy setting the bar high. As part of their business family, fishers must be willing to go the extra mile to improve their practices. If necessary, some modify their fleet, including more selective nets and more fuel-efficient engines. They must also support:

• Avoiding damage to shallow ocean floors from dragging heavy equipment
• Rotating the harvest of species to not over fish one population
• Employing new practices to lesson environmental impact

For Kanaloa, processing is part of sustainability. Sanitation and food safety are critical.

Read more at the Huffington Post. Kanaloa Seafood has been locally owned and based in Santa Barbara for over 30 years.