KNOW FISH Dinner Reloaded: Celebrating a decade of sustainable seafood dinners

To commemorate One Fish Foundation’s 10-year anniversary, we planned a late-fall KNOW FISH Dinner® in Seacoast N.H., where the idea for this storytelling sustainable seafood dinner series began in 2015.

The first KNOW FISH Dinner went down on Oct. 13, 2016 at When Pigs Fly in Kittery, Maine. That followed nearly a year of planning featuring a host of chefs, fishmongers, and advocates in and around the N.H. and Maine Seacoast area.

Our mission was to provide a rich, message-based experience for folks in the community as they heard the story of the seafood they were eating directly from the fishermen. We discussed how best to choreograph the event so the messaging was clear and resonant, and effectively paired with great local seafood.

In the ensuing nine years, we’ve brought KNOW FISH Dinners outside of the Seacoast, partnering with Slow Fish North America to bring these dinners to communities ranging from the University of Massachusetts Amherst down to New Orleans, into Texas, California, Oregon and Washington state.

Pre-dinner coordination with local seafood producers and local chefs collaborating on community engagement around local seafood with values.

The Nov. 3 dinner at Throwback