Saturday Fishermen's Market of Santa Barbara

Happy Friday everyone and happy summer solstice! Here’s your weekly catch report - We can’t wait to see you at the Fishermen’s Market tomorrow morning on the pier right below Brophy’s Restaurant! 👍😋☀️

Happy Dads & Grads Weekend! 🎓💙🎣😎We hope you get to enjoy the sunshine this weekend and come see us for all your seafood needs! Here’s your weekly catch report - We can’t wait to see you at the Fishermen’s Market tomorrow morning on the pier right below Brophy’s Restaurant! 👍😋

🚨NEW VENDOR ALERT!🚨 The Saturday Fishermen’s Market is excited to welcome Matt Rollings () to our lineup! Swipe through to learn more about Matt and see some other shots from some of our vendors this week 😍 See you tomorrow and as always, we extend our deepest gratitude for your support of your local commercial fishing fleet!

We'll have beautiful Channel Island Rock Crab tomorrow at the Saturday Fishermen's Market of Santa Barbara from 6-11 am on the pier across from Brophy's.

Come see us at the first booth on the pier, we are Garrigan Seafood Co!

If you see this guy today be sure to wish him a happy birthday! Thank you for all your contributions to the Saturday Fishermen’s Market Randy - We are so grateful to have you as a vendor and we hope you have an awesome day of celebrating!! 🍻🎣🎉🥳

Happy Friday everyone! We hope you’ll stop by the Saturday Fishermen’s Market tomorrow for all your Memorial Day needs! 🇺🇸🦀🐟

Happy Friday everyone! Here’s your weekly catch report - We can’t wait to see you at the Fishermen’s Market tomorrow morning on the pier right below Brophy’s Restaurant! 👍😋

Ever been curious about the life cycle of the farmed abalone you see at the Saturday Fishermen’s Market? Read below to learn more about this amazing process from the folks at the farm! 😍

At the Cultured Abalone Farm we grow red abalone from larvae to point of sale. Each abalone is hand fed and hard harvested throughout their time on the farm. It takes our regular 4 piece per lb abalone between 3-5 years to reach sales size and our larger sizes such as the Demis and Balthazars can take much longer to reach sales size. 

Kelp is harvested from local kelp beds using the F/V Ocean Harvest, the only operating kelp harvester in CA! Giant kelp is a perennial, and we only harvest by trimming the shoots which reach the surface. The reproductive part of the kelp is at the base, and our harvesting is sustainable by design, we rely on kelp as a healthy forage for our abalone and urchin.  

After being harvested, the kelp is then brought to the farm where it is chopped and distributed to the tanks by hand. We work with kelp every week of the year, all year, and we are highly tuned in to the seasonality and growth of the kelp resource.  The kelp shown in these pictures is springtime kelp, with clean blades and a dark rich color.  

Come down this Saturday and try some delicious farmed abalone for yourself! 😋

Happy Mother’s Day Weekend everyone! 💕 Here’s your weekly catch report - We can’t wait to see you at the Fishermen’s Market tomorrow morning on the pier right below Brophy’s Restaurant! ☀️🐟🦀

Happy Friday everyone! Here’s your weekly catch report for the market tomorrow plus a couple shots from the boats this week 😍 See you tomorrow! 🐟

Happy Friday folks! Here’s your weekly catch report - Small update, there will actually be no whelks, but there will still be a whole bunch of other delicious species! See you tomorrow! 😁

🚨New vendor alert!!🚨 Please welcome Randy Hughes to the Saturday Fishermen’s Market lineup!

Randy grew up locally in Goleta. He was practically raised on the water, fishing, surfing, sailing, and diving. Fishing became Randy’s #1 passion and all the hours he spent on our local waters rewarded him with a wealth of knowledge of the fisheries within them. Randy attended Santa Barbara City College where he earned his associates degree and quickly realized he needed to work outdoors. He worked as a commercial diver in the Santa Barbara harbor for 7 years before his passion for both fishing and quality seafood led him to commercial fishing. Randy spent the past few years as a deckhand learning the trade and now runs his own F/V Freedom, his 22’ Eastern, along the coast and out at the islands to supply local markets. Randy is an approved vendor for a variety of finfish species including Halibut, Tuna, White Seabass, Sole, Mackerel, and Ocean Whitefish.

Be sure to give his account a follow and stop by this Saturday to meet him yourself and try some of his delicious catch!

Happy birthday Joe! We hope your day is wonderful and thank you for all your contributions to the Saturday Fishermen’s Market! 🎉🦞🦀

Happy Friday! Here are some snippets from the week along with the weekly catch report. See you tomorrow at the Saturday Fishermen’s Market! 😁

Yum!

The Santa Barbara Sketching Group has visited the Saturday Fishermen’s Market the past couple weeks and we are so grateful to connect with such kind folks and see what awesome creations they come up with! Check them out on Facebook to learn more! ✍️🎨🖌️🐟👍