The first Saturday in May is a BIG DEAL. It’s the happy day when recreational fishers can begin pursuing a prize walleye or bluegill fish fry in Wisconsin. This year – 2021 – the fishing opener happens as early as it can: May 1, a.k.a....
Years before COVID-19 brought normal activities to a screeching halt, Wisconsin Sea Grant's Marie Zhuikov visited Baileys Harbor Fish Company. Despite time and the pall of the pandemic, this story still resonates. [caption id="attachment_7232" align="alignleft" width="462"] Bailey's Harbor Fish Company in Door County, Wisconsin[/caption] Commercial fishing business...
Thanks for visiting Eat Wisconsin Fish and participating in Wisconsin Water Week 2021. It was fun cooking with you! Please feel free to connect with Sharon Moen, outreach specialist with Wisconsin Sea Grant, for more information. Email smoen@aqua.wisc.edu. Check out the recipes! Trout with Orange Saffron Sauce Smoke and...
"Eat at least two servings of fish each week."* (American Heart Association[1] and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration[2]) With respect to matters of the heart, the American Heart Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tend to put fish on a pedestal. They do...
The American food scene is rich with African American contributions, including many that revolve around fish. Time and circumstances conspired to fade the names and faces of most of the people who left us with a taste for barbeque, soul food, and Creole and Cajun...
Eating food harvested in the U.S. and close to where you’re living is a habit worth cultivating. Most of the fish and shrimp Americans eat comes from other countries.* Perhaps it shouldn’t. Here are five excellent reasons to preferentially put Wisconsin fish on the table: Freshness....
Happy New Year! Millions of people from many cultures value fish as luck-inducing New Year's entrées whether their tables are set on January 1 or on a day defined by a different calendar*. Why fish? People eat fish as one year passes to the next for one...
The Feast of the Seven Fishes is an Italian-American, Christmas Eve tradition that anyone can adopt! What? The Feast of the Seven Fishes started as a nod to the old country by Italian-American families living in New York’s Little Italy during the late 1800s. It is...
This time of year is spiced with nutmeg and seasonal music. Some of the most ardent crooning is done by burbot, a fish that spawns under ice sheets. Burbot are native to Wisconsin and are delicious. They taste like cod. Take a moment to sing...
The answer isn't as simple as one number. [caption id="attachment_6814" align="alignright" width="211"] The Wisconsin DNR published advice for fish consumption.[/caption] The newly updated Choose Wisely booklet issued by the Wisconsin Departments of Natural Resources and Health Services points out that the number of wild-caught fish you might...
