273. Mermaid’s Garden NYC | Seafood CSA and Fish Market | Mark Usewicz | Brooklyn, NY

  For Valentine’s Day I asked Mark Usewicz from Mermaid’s Garden NYC to talk to us about their Fish Market and CSA since it seems like the news is all about the Mediterranean diet. I love fish, and caring for sustainable Oceans and water is important to me, and I think it probably is for you too. I’ve got some great videos of my mom making her delicious fish I’ll try to add at the end. Sorry it took so long to get this out there, but I always say the perfect interview happens when just the right listener is in the audience! MermaidsGardenNYC.com Mermaid’s Garden On Instagram  Check out Mark’s pieces in Martha Stewart Tell us a little about yourself, Mark Usewicz. I was trained as a chef restaurant business lived in NYC last thing I wanted to do was open my own restaurant and the next worse thing is open my own business but  my wife was in the restaurant business trained as a fish biologist We saw this need for a great fish market in our neighborhood, there really wasn’t anywhere great to buy fish We knew a few fishermen and we built this network started a fish share kind of like a CSA or CSF but we’re not the fisherman Started by connecting our customers with a weekly fish sourced in the Northeast we work with fishermen on Long Island Massachusetts Rhode Island Developed this whole network of aqua-culturists small boat fisherman retail space fish share going retail market all domestic small boat fisherman sourced seafood I grew up in Buffalo, NY so other side of the state a lot of people don’t know where that is in NYC,  different vibe different pace I grew up on Long Island and I have sooooo many fond memories of buying fish on the docks from the fisherman in Freeport on Long Island. My mom would cook all the fish from scratch, cut the heads off scale it etc… and then there’s been so much on the news this year about