Sustainable Seafood Salon Panelists

• Patricia Unterman is chef and co-owner of the Hayes Street Grill in San Francisco. The restaurant specializes in sustainably harvested fish and shellfish and local, seasonal foods, much of it purchased directly from farmers and local producers. Hayes Street Grill is now celebrating its twenty-seventh anniversary.
  Wearing a second hat, she has been a restaurant critic and food writer in San Francisco for over 30 years. She currently writes restaurant reviews and food columns for the San Francisco Examiner and articles for Gourmet,
  Food and Wine, Town and Country Travel and other publications. She was the restaurant critic of the San Francisco Chronicle for fifteen years. The new fourth edition of San Francisco Food Lovers’ Guide (Ten-Speed Press) is
  currently in bookstores. She publishes a bi-monthly newsletter called Unterman on Food.
  She is a founder and board member of CUESA, the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture, the non-profit that started the Ferry Plaza Farmers’ Market in San Francisco, a market devoted to sustainable agriculture.
  
• Tom Worthington partner at Monterey Fish: Purveyor of the highest quality fish to the Bay Area's top restaurants and stores, Monterey Fish is remarkable in its leadership in establishing standards for sustainably caught fish and for its access to, and skilled and careful handling of, seafood from numerous sources, both local and far reaching.
  
• Zeke Grader is the executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA), which is based in San Francisco. The PCFFA, a federation of 25 different port and fishermen's marketing associations from San Diego to Alaska, is the largest trade association of commercial fishermen on the West Coast. Grader has been its executive director for 26 years and has been involved in the fishing industry his entire life.
  
• Sheila Bowman has been at the Monterey Bay Aquarium for over fourteen years, working in education and membership before taking her current position with Seafood Watch. As the program's Outreach Coordinator, Sheila works with over 100 aquarium, zoo, business and restaurant partners across the country, developing programs and materials that they can use to both educate their customers and visitors about choosing sustainable seafood and promote ocean-friendly seafood in their communities.
  
• Steve Fitz Owner / Operator F/V Mr. Morgan grew up in a small Cape Cod fishing village called Chatham. As a young man, he became increasingly curious about the small fishing boats whose noisy diesels would be heard receding in the black fog shrouded dawn east of Cape Cod. In 1972 he transferred from Boston University to the deck of a 40' wooden long-liner named “Destiny.” Since then, he has crewed upon and captained commercial boats in New England, the North Sea, Alaska and California. In 1975, the University of Rhode Island provided a grant for qualified fisherman to learn the environmentally friendly method of harvesting bottom fish known as Scottish Seining. After returning from Scotland, a small fishing boat was equipped with seine gear and began fishing on Georges Banks east of Cape Cod. The results were impressive. Years later that same fishing equipment was trucked from Cape Cod to Half Moon Bay and bolted to the deck of the salmon troller “Ronny.” And so began the California “seine caught” sand dab fishery. For the past 22 years, the F/V Ronny, and now the F/V Mr. Morgan, have provided the Bay Area with high quality flatfish harvested in the most environmentally friendly method known.