
My friend Sarah Schumann is a professional small scale shellfisher in Rhode Island, and spends her summers working at a salmon cannery in Alaska. She started “Eating with the Ecosystem,” an educational effort, as a way to refocus conversations about sustainable seafood around local "seafood-sheds." Lecture-dinners are held at local restaurants to showcase sustainable seafood, prepared by wonderful chefs, to educate diners about local seafood resources and practices. In November, such a dinner was hosted at Tallulah On Thames, in Newport, Rhode Island.