Great Lakes Fresh Fish Finder illustration Credit: Joel Davenport

FreshFishFinder.org provides consumers and businesses across Great Lakes states with options on where to find and promote aquaculture and seafood products

Contact: 

Barry Udelson, Aquaculture Specialist, New York Sea Grant, E: aquaculture@cornell.edu

Stony Brook, NY, March 4, 2024 - Great Lakes Fresh Fish Finder, www.freshfishfinder.org, is designed to provide consumers with an easy-to-use map of fish seller locations and businesses throughout the Great Lakes region where they can purchase wild-caught and aquaculture-raised fish and seafood products and bait.

For producers, Great Lakes Fresh Fish Finder will help you access new markets and be easily searchable for interested consumers. So, if you sell fish, the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network invites you to join this free website.

For each participating business, FreshFishFinder.org lists the business name, location, product categories, website URL, contact information, and a brief description of the business.

Want to learn more? Visit www.freshfishfinder.org and be sure to check out our short video clips below to help provide you with some context about Great Lakes Fresh Fish Finder ...

FishFinder.org: How Can I Find Great Lakes Seafood (March 2024)



Transcript: Great Lakes seafood is fresh, healthy, and sustainable. 

Want to know where to find it? Hardworking farmers and producers are providing fresh fish in the Great Lakes region.

Support fishers and farmers in your local community.

The Sea Grant Great Lakes Fresh Fish Finder website helps you find Great Lakes fish in your area. Visit FreshFishFinder.org to find fresh fish near you.


FishFinder.org: How Can Great Lakes Fish Producers Connect With Customers (March 2024)



Transcript: Are you looking for new markets for your fish harvested or raised in the Great Lakes region?

The Sea Grant Great Lakes Fresh Fish Finder website is a powerful tool for connecting producers with consumers. It’s the perfect place to showcase your fish for seafood, ornamental uses, stocking, bait, fee fishing, and more. Raise your business’s visibility in your own community and around the region with this free resource.

Visit the “Add Your Business” webpage at FreshFishFinder.org to learn how to join.


FishFinder.org: How To Use Sea Grant's Great Lakes Fresh Fish Finder (March 2024)



Transcript: The Sea Grant Great Lakes Fresh Fish Finder website showcases hard-working local fishers and farmers in communities around the Great Lakes.

Search by entering a fish species in the search bar or use the filters to search for things like product type including bait fish, fee fishing, fish for stocking, food fish or ornamentals.

Explore businesses that harvest fish from our valuable waters in the Great Lakes region and farmers who raise them on land-based aquaculture farms. Dive into each business. Check out their contact information, products offered and more.

Ready to find fresh fish? Connect with your local producers today by visiting freshfishfinder.org


FishFinder.org: Stock Your Pond or Tank With Great Lakes Fresh Fish Finder (March 2024)



Transcript: Stocking your garden pond or fish tank?

The Sea Grant Great Lakes Fresh Fish Finder website can help. Hardworking producers in your community have healthy, sustainable, clean, colorful fish ready for you.

Visit FreshFishFinder.org to find fresh fish raised in the Great Lakes region.

The Great Lakes Sea Grant FreshFishFinder.org website is a product of a handful of Sea Grant staff members from the Great Lakes Sea Grant programs of Illinois-Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The project was initiated and led by Minnesota Sea Grant in collaboration with Sea Grant colleagues from the Sea Grant Great Lakes Aquaculture Collaborative project.


More Info: New York Sea Grant

New York Sea Grant (NYSG), a cooperative program of Cornell University and the State University of New York (SUNY), is one of 34 university-based programs under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program.

Since 1971, NYSG has represented a statewide network of integrated research, education and extension services promoting coastal community economic vitality, environmental sustainability and citizen awareness and understanding about the State’s marine and Great Lakes resources.

Through NYSG’s efforts, the combined talents of university scientists and extension specialists help develop and transfer science-based information to many coastal user groups—businesses and industries, federal, state and local government decision-makers and agency managers, educators, the media and the interested public.

The program maintains Great Lakes offices at Cornell University, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Oswego and the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office in Newark. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook University and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County on Long Island, Brooklyn College and Cornell Cooperative Extension in NYC and Kingston in the Hudson Valley.

For updates on Sea Grant activities: www.nyseagrant.org has RSS, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube links. NYSG offers a free e-list sign up via www.nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines for its flagship publication, NY Coastlines/Currents, which is published quarterly.