Oyster Tasting at Kanaloa Seafood in Santa Barbara

Join your favorite fish mongers for a relaxed shuck & suck on Thursday, March 20, 2014. We'll be sampling amazing new boutique oysters as well as standard favorites!

• Rappahannock River Oysters
• Stingray Oysters
• Olde Salt Oysters
• Kumamoto Oysters
• And more!

When:   Thursday, March 20, 2014

Where:   Kanaloa Seafood Market, 618 E. Gutierrez, Santa Barbara

Time:    1:00pm - 3:00pm

Cost:    $2.50 per oyster or 3 oysters for $6.00. Shucking & mignonette included!

Call 805-966-5159 to RSVP!

Happy St. Patrick's Day - Erin Go Braugh!

Oh, the music in the air!
An' the joy that's ivrywhere --
Shure, the whole blue vault of heaven is wan grand triumphal arch,
An' the earth below is gay
Wid its tender green th'-day,
Fur the whole world is Irish on the Seventeenth o' March!

~Thomas Augustin Daly

Top o' the morning to ya! If you're enough lucky to be Irish, you're lucky and smart enough to know that sustainable fish makes the BEST Fish & Chips! Shop Kanaloa Seafood for amazing Cod, Grouper, Seabass or California Halibut and download our recipe for Kanaloa Seafood Fish & Chips.

Alaskan Halibut Season 2014

Good morning Seafood Lovers! Alaskan Halibut season opened yesterday and tomorrow we will receive the first catch of the season! Give us a call at 805-966-5159 for pick up in Santa Barbara or 707-224-3474 in Napa and we'll set some aside for you. We'll see you soon! 

The Joy of Cooking with Fish Heads

 Fish heads ♫ fish heads 

Roly poly fish heads ♫

Fish heads ♫ fish heads

Eat them up yum!

With increasing sales in aquaculture, the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization is working to make sure that small-scale fisherman and artisanal fish farmers also benefit from the economic growth. One idea is to actively market fish by-producsts, such as fish heads, fish bones and viscera.

Audun Lem, Chief of FAO’s Products, Trade and Marketing Branch stated, "We must ensure that these by-products are not wasted from an economic but also a nutritional point of view. By-products often have a higher nutritional value than fillets, particularly in terms of essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals, and can constitute an excellent means of combating micronutrient deficiencies in developing countries."

Read more about the UN's efforts and cooking with fish heads on NPR's The Salt. And of course Kanaloa Seafood Market has fresh fish heads and bones for amazing stocks, soups and curries. Give us a call at 805-966-5159 and we'll set some aside for you. We'll see you soon!

Blue Whale v. Pod of Orcas

Video footage from the Monterey Bay Whale Watch shows what appears to be a pod of orcas attacking a lone blue whale. Someone representing the company wrote on their Facebook page,

The BLUE WHALE TAIL THROWS, blood flying off of its bitten right fluke tip, after its encounter with six killer whales. The blue whale immediately dove and sped away, popping up 1/4 mile away and then 1/2 mile away; the killer whales did not pursue it. This may be the first time such an encounter between these two species has been filmed in California!