Podcast appearances and mentions of catalina offshore products

Dan and I met at Catalina Offshore Products 24 years ago when I moved to San Diego and started exploring what our city had to offer. He was instrumental In building relationships with Baja day boat fishermen and taught them that if they handled fish the right way there was more money in it for them. This was before the Tuna Harbor Dockside Market and the delivery system we have today. We had to go to Catalina Offshore and hand pick what they had on ice. Uni, white seabass, grouper, yellowtail, all at the highest quality possible. In this podcast we discuss the beginnings and what led it to the industry we have today.  

Welcome back to the Happy Half Hour podcast! Our sponsor this week is the SoNo Fest and Chili Cook-Off, and with us today is long-time chili competitor and beer donor, Lee Chase from Automatic Brewing, Tiger! Tiger!, Blind Lady Ale House and Panama 66. SoNo Fest is now one of the largest festivals in the North and South Park neighborhoods and is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year on December 1. This week’s special guest is Tommy Gomes, also known as Tommy the Fishmonger. Tommy joined us on the podcast in 2017, but is back to talk about his new consulting and advocacy work under his new brand, Tommy the Fishmonger. Tommy has a long history in San Diego working for Catalina Offshore Products, helping them open the Seafood Education and Nutrition Center. Tommy also founded Collaboration Kitchen, a nonprofit dinner series focused on seafood education, and you can also find him on YouTube cooking up some great seafood recipes. Tommy’s work helped Catalina Offshore receive a grant in 2019 to help expand the demand for underutilized species. We featured Tommy in our latest issue's Food Lovers’ Guide, where he gave us tips on how to buy the best seafood. For Two People, $50, Tommy chose Volare on Midway because he says their pasta with red sauce is the most authentic in San Diego. He also chose Fiddlers Green because you can get a steak with a baked potato and a salad for just $12. Lauren chose Brian Malarkey and Chris Puffer’s new restaurant, Herb and Sea. Troy liked the garlic chicken wrap at Mama’s Bakery and Lebanese Deli. In Hot Plates, it was all about restaurant openings: the new Puffer Malarkey Collective, Herb and Sea, the new Hillcrest steakhouse, Rare Society, and a new Southern restaurant in Hillcrest, Sunnyboy Biscuit Company. We also talked about Daniela Martinez, the pastry chef at Il Dandy—she just won the Sweets Showdown on the Food Network show Chopped. Daniela competed against the chefs from Milk Bar in New York and Broken Spanish in LA, and won $50,000! This week’s Hot Topic is about what to do when you’re a huge foodie, but you have a kid who is a picky eater. Troy wrote a heartfelt essay for the November issue and shared that while he’s a restaurant critic and an adventurous eater for a living, his daughter has a long list of things that she will not eat. Thanks for listening, and we’d love to hear from you! Call us at 619-744-0535 and leave a message. Or if you’re too shy to call, you can email HappyHalfHour@sdmag.com. You can give us your recommendations for Two People, $50, tell us about any news happening in San Diego’s culinary world, or let us know who you’d like to hear featured as a guest on the podcast.

Tommy Gomes aka Tommy the Fish Monger joins us this week on the Kayak Fishing Show Live. Tommy is kind of a local legend here in San Diego. Former commercial fisherman, the face of Catalina Offshore products, the starter of collaboration kitchen, a champion of sustainable seafood, the inventer of Uni butter..... The List goes on and on. Tommy has faced many challenges and always seems to come out on top due to his insane work ethic. This will be a great show I hope you can join us this Friday at 2:00 pm Pacific time Tommy is joining us thanks to these great companies. Catalina Offshore Products The first stop from the docks, Catalina Offshore Products has been San Diego’s trusted source for high-quality and sushi grade seafood for over 40 years. Catalina Offshore’s fish market offers a wide variety of local seafood, including tuna, swordfish, opah and Baja fish. They also sell sea urchin, spot prawns, lobster and other seasonal items. Shop Catalina Offshore in San Diego at 5202 Lovelock St., or online at catalinaop.com Camp Chef The preferred cooking equipment of Tommy the Fishmonger, Camp Chef offers the best camping grills, stoves, smokers, and everything outdoor cooking. Shop at campchef.com Uni Goop and Uni Butter Uni Goop and Uni Butter are made with naturally occurring oils from sea urchin, resulting in the ULTIMATE fish attractant. Inquire at unigoop.com SeaDek / Blue Seas Fabrication Located in San Diego, Blue Seas Fabrication is your west coast SeaDek Certified Fabricator for full custom SeaDek

Our adventures continue with that well known salty sea dog, Tommy "The Fishmonger” Gomes. Tommy is a native San Diegan whose Portuguese family settled here in 1892. Fishing is in his veins. He worked on San Diego’s tuna fishing fleet which gave him a deep knowledge of the industry. Tommy is passionate about seafood, seafood education, sustainable fishing, the quality of our oceans and giving back to others who are less fortunate than him. Catalina Offshore Products is one of San Diego’s premier purveyors of seafood. Still family owned, most of the fish on offer is sustainably sourced by local fishermen. Tommy has been their fishmonger for many years. Conversation flows easily with Tommy. We had no problem talking for an hour and could have continued longer were it not for his assistant, the delightful Rebecca Gardon, reminding him of his other commitments. We hope that you enjoy this episode of Food For Thought. If so, please leave a comment and like and subscribe to our podcast. Produced at Studio C Creative Sound Recorders in San Diego CA

On this episode we set sail for Catalina Offshore Products to interview that well known salty sea dog, Tommy "The Fishmonger” Gomes. Tommy is a native San Diegan whose Portuguese family settled here in 1892. Fishing is in his veins. He worked on San Diego’s tuna fishing fleet which gave him a deep knowledge of the industry. Tommy is passionate about seafood, seafood education, sustainable fishing, the quality of our oceans and giving back to others who are less fortunate than him. Catalina Offshore Products is one of San Diego’s premier purveyors of seafood. Still family owned, most of the fish on offer is sustainably sourced by local fishermen. Tommy has been their fishmonger for many years. Conversation flows easily with Tommy. We had no problem talking for an hour and could have continued longer were it not for his assistant, the delightful Rebecca Gardon, reminding him of his other commitments. We hope that you enjoy this episode of Food For Thought. If so, please leave a comment and like and subscribe to our podcast. Produced at Studio C Creative Sound Recorders in San Diego CA

Guests: Dr. Richard Wahle, Director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine Darling Research Center. Dave Rudie Owner and Founder of Catalina Offshore Products in San Diego. Topics Discussed: What else Lobster and more. Mike recounts his latest Lobster trip to Catalina. Dr. Wahle talks Lobster 101 and the American or Maine Lobster and issues affecting them. Dave Rudie gives equal time to the California Spiny Lobster. Both discuss issues with each species as well as the tariff situation. Dave also talks about Urchins and Uni Sushi. 

On today’s Happy Half Hour, hosts Erin Chambers Smith, Troy Johnson, and producer Archana Ram chat local dining news, including Tacos el Gordo and Tacos el Franc opening downtown, the closing of Del Mar’s Mia Francesca, Lot 8 debuting in Mission Valley, and a grown-up take on Chuck E. Cheese coming to North Park. Plus, pssst: La Jolla may be getting a Crack Shack! Today’s special guest is Catalina Offshore Products’ fishmonger Tommy Gomes, a native San Diegan with deep roots in the city’s tuna fishing scene. He tells us about his history, how to cook fish via his YouTube channel, and Catalina’s new line of canned tuna. We’re also discussing the San Diego chef who’s making waves at a Noma pop-up in Tulum, Mexico and Pinterest’s “Shazam for food” app. We end the show with recommendations for Two People/$50, including Volare.

January 14, 2017 The post Dave Rudie and Tommy Gomes of Catalina Offshore Products; Aviva Paley from Kitchens for Good appeared first on It's Your Money and Your Life Radio Show.

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Captains Frank Ursetti (Ranger 85), Chuck Taft (Sea Adventure Sportfishing), Ray Montero (Premier Sportfishing), Ray Summers (Vendetta Sportfishing) and Chris Randel (Chief Sportfishing). Also we caught up with our long-time friend Tommy Gomes from Catalina Offshore Products